Quotes by Jose Saramago

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a...

#Jose Saramago

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

#Jose Saramago

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

#Jose Saramago

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to...

#Jose Saramago

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

#Jose Saramago

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world....

#Jose Saramago

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies,...

#Jose Saramago

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon....

#Jose Saramago

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret,...

#Jose Saramago

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

#Jose Saramago

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my...

#Jose Saramago

I am not a prophet.

#Jose Saramago