. . . 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 More Quotes by Jose Saramago More Quotes From Jose Saramago Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning. Jose Saramago concessionsdignityends One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do. Jose Saramago carefulmindpeople Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves. Jose Saramago mysterious-thingsprayerheaven There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it. Jose Saramago touchingeyesight Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow. Jose Saramago angelwingsmen Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters. Jose Saramago voicenamespeople In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers. Jose Saramago creatingblockwriting Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction. Jose Saramago tirepersonsstruggle En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona. Jose Saramago diosoyatheist Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another. Jose Saramago distancesleeplying 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 dyingmayhands We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. Jose Saramago movementdifferentlaughing As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. Jose Saramago obligationcitizenshouse Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious. Jose Saramago husbandmenlying It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. Jose Saramago electionacceptingpeople A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little. Jose Saramago stomachhungerlittles 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 gmosreceivinghabit The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better. Jose Saramago contentmentwisemen I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money? Jose Saramago empiresoptimisticpeople Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. Jose Saramago givenmenorder
