641 Quotes by José Saramago

Chua, então, já não chorava, mas os seus olhos nunca mais voltarão a estar secos, que esse é o choro que não tem remédio, aquele lume contínuo que queima as lágrimas antes que elas possam surgir e rolar pelas faces.

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune...

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep…

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,

They were free to do whatever they like, to do evil, which everyone knows is the easiest thing to do.

Pleased? On the contrary. I think you're in the grip of tedium. You're tired of life, you think you've learned all there is to learn, and everything you see around you only increases your sense of tedium. Why, then, should I feel pleased? It isn't always easy to cut off a tentacle. You can always leave a boring job and, even more easily, a boring woman, but tedium, how do you cut yourself off from that?

what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves