José Saramago Quotes

The blindness is also this: to live in a world where hope has ended.

Things go wrong if they lack the touch of human skin.

Hope, only hope, nothing else, you reach a point where there is nothing but hope, and then we discover that we still have everything.

What will be, will be. I know that philosophy. They often call it predestination, fatalism, fate, but what it really means is that you will do as you damn well please, as always.

The only ones interested in changing the world are the pessimists, because the optimists are delighted with what is.

Time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place. We move forward, stop, and even go backward according to its orders. Our mistake is to imagine that we can outsmart it.

What is the use of regret if it doesn't erase anything that has happened? The best kind of regret is simply to change.

Joy and pain are not like oil and water, but rather coexist.

Time is not a rope that can be measured knot by knot, time is an oblique and undulating surface that only memory is capable of making move and approach.

A person's identity is not defined by the name they have, the place they were born, or the date they came into the world. A person's identity simply consists of being, and being cannot be denied.