Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
People
Means
Destroying
Order
Passed
Ideas
Improve
Come
Genuine
Mean
Miracle
Good
Either
Things
Whatever
Miracles
Time
Idea
Besides
More quotes by Jose Saramago
The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.
Jose Saramago
You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
Jose Saramago
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.
Jose Saramago
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.
Jose Saramago
There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
Jose Saramago
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism optimists will never change the world for the better.
Jose Saramago
Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.
Jose Saramago
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
Jose Saramago
People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.
Jose Saramago
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
Jose Saramago
Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
Jose Saramago
Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
Jose Saramago
We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.
Jose Saramago
That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.
Jose Saramago
just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
Jose Saramago
A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
Jose Saramago
We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
Jose Saramago
Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
Jose Saramago
A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
Jose Saramago
There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
Jose Saramago
