Quote

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

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
Courage
Loses
Persons
Person
Enough
Must
Heart
Life

More quotes by Jose Saramago

Image
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
Jose Saramago
Image
Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
Jose Saramago
Image
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
Jose Saramago
Image
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
Jose Saramago
Image
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
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
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
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
Jose Saramago
Image
There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
Jose Saramago
Image
One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
Jose Saramago
Image
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
Jose Saramago
Image
when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
Jose Saramago
Image
A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
Jose Saramago
Image
When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
Jose Saramago
Image
A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
Jose Saramago
Image
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
Jose Saramago
Image
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Jose Saramago
Image
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.
Jose Saramago