Jose Saramago Quotes

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

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

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.