Quote

just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.

Jose Saramago

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
Chronicler
Diarist
Dramaturge
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
Jose Saramago
Everything
Take
Time
Solution
Life
Solutions
Like
Courses
Course
Else
Find

More quotes by Jose Saramago

Image
...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.
Jose Saramago
Image
a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
Jose Saramago
Image
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
Jose Saramago
Image
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
Jose Saramago
Image
As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.
Jose Saramago
Image
The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.
Jose Saramago
Image
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.
Jose Saramago
Image
The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.
Jose Saramago
Image
Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
Jose Saramago
Image
The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.
Jose Saramago
Image
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
Jose Saramago
Image
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.
Jose Saramago
Image
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
Jose Saramago
Image
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago
Image
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
Jose Saramago
Image
Every thing in life is a uniform the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
Jose Saramago
Image
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
Jose Saramago
Image
Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
Jose Saramago
Image
There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.
Jose Saramago
Image
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
Jose Saramago