The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards. Jose Saramago More Quotes by Jose Saramago More Quotes From Jose Saramago Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle. Jose Saramago foulblessednight Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying. Jose Saramago destroyingcreating Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer? Jose Saramago murdererkillingnames 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 frustratedrunninghands I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. Jose Saramago writingordertravel God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves. Jose Saramago islamevilheaven There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs. Jose Saramago legsmentwo but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. Jose Saramago movingfirststhinking We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness Jose Saramago weaknesstearsmoments Your questions are false if you already know the answer. Jose Saramago ifsanswersknows But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. Jose Saramago lapsesoblivionneeds A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. Jose Saramago constructiondestructionfashion ... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both. Jose Saramago enoughshouldheart 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 bellymenthinking Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered Jose Saramago perspectivewaitingorder We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other. Jose Saramago usesometimes 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 marsmachinesdoe The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him. Jose Saramago misunderstandingmankind We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality. Jose Saramago wallplatoreality Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us. Jose Saramago decision
