641 Quotes by José Saramago

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.