Jose Saramago Quotes

“Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― Jose Saramago

“[José] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile — he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive.”
― Harold Bloom

“..then he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark,
'Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and the greater the similarity, the greater the difference,' at that moment he did not yet know how right he was.”
― José Saramago, All the Names

“Takav je običaj, ljudi govore stvari bez razmišljanja, ne štede reči pa šta bude, i ne pada im na pamet da se zaustave i razmisle o posledicama.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

“Na verdade, a um relógio tanto lhe faz, vai da uma às doze, o mais são ideias dos humanos.”
― José Saramago, ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA - portuguese

“É um velho costume da humanidade, esse de passar ao lado dos mortos e não os ver.”
― José Saramago

“O certo e o errado são apenas modos diferentes de entender a nossa relação com os outros, não a que temos com nós próprios.”
― José Saramago