José Saramago Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out. The Cave

2. Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth. The Cave

3. Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

4. Quien planta un árbol tampoco sabe si acabará ahorcándose en él

5. Somos cada vez mais, os defeitos que temos, não as qualidades A Viagem do Elefante

6. ... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. The Cave

7. Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

8. blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. Blindness

9. La esperanza es como la sal, no alimenta pero da sabor al pan. Seeing

10. Qué extraña idea de lo justo parece tener el señor. Caim

11. The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

12. The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory ... The Cave

13. You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. Blindness