Jose Saramago Quotes

• We are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people.

  Jose Saramago

  Topics in Truth

• Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you’re born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

  Jose Saramago

  Topics in Life

• The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralization of the overly curious mind through faith.

  Jose Saramago

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

  Jose Saramago

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Reading

• Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

  Jose Saramago

  Topics in Death

• Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

  Jose Saramago

  Topics in Death, Religion

• Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

  Jose Saramago

• Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.

  Jose Saramago

• 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

• 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

• Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

  Jose Saramago

• There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

  Jose Saramago

• There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

  Jose Saramago

• The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic – the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

  Jose Saramago

• The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

  Jose Saramago

• The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

  Jose Saramago

• The problem is that the right doesn’t need any ideas to govern, but the left can’t govern without ideas.

  Jose Saramago

• The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

  Jose Saramago

• The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

  Jose Saramago

• The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

  Jose Saramago

Jose Saramago (49)

Birth:	16th November, 1922
Death:	18th June, 2010
Nationality:	Portuguese
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist, Poet, Writer, Playwriter

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