641 Quotes by José Saramago

That it’s possible not to see a lie even when it’s in front of us.

God, the devil, good, evil, it’s all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

Death is present every day in our lives. It’s not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

I’m not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

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.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don’t, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity – a novel, for example – I write every day.

If you don’t write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

We’re not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.