641 Quotes by José Saramago

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

When you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.