641 Quotes by José Saramago

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo'.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

I don’t think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won’t give up.

Each day is a little bit of history.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn’t understand us, and we don’t understand him.

Oh, I’m not just going too far, I’ve arrived.

I believe that I’ve been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.