Quotes by : José Saramago

We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect....

A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks,....

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any....

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there....

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer....

... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has....

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to....

In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically,....

That's a rather subversive idea, isn't it? "Do you think so? I don't. If it is subversive, then everything....

These earthenware bowls are fragile and easily broken, they are only made of a little clay on which fortune....