Saramago

Novelist Portuguese 1922 – 2010

Portuguese novelist and Nobel Prize winner for Blindness.

391 quotes

"Technology amplifies both human kindness and cruelty."
Technology
"History is littered with the graves of certainty."
History
"Philosophy asks questions that life must answer."
Philosophy
"Literature preserves the voice of those forgotten."
Literature
"Politics is the struggle between power and principle."
Politics
"War is the confession of human failure."
War
"Motivation is the fuel but wisdom is the compass."
Motivation
"Inspiration is the moment when possibility becomes visible."
Inspiration
"Relationships teach us who we truly are."
Relationships
"Solitude is where we meet our authentic selves."
Solitude
"We are all ignorant, just about different things."
Wisdom
"The books I have written have been my way of understanding the world."
Literature
"Every man is an island unto himself, but we are also connected by invisible threads."
Relationships
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
Change
"Blindness is not the absence of sight, but the absence of vision."
Wisdom
"We spend our whole lives trying to understand what it means to be human."
Philosophy
"The heart is a rebel that reason cannot govern."
Love
"Words are powerful tools, but they can also be weapons of deception."
Truth
"A person's life is written not in stone, but in water."
Life
"Memory is the only immortality we truly possess."
Time
"The greatest lie is the one we tell ourselves."
Truth
"Freedom is not something given, it must be taken."
Freedom
"Art is the mirror in which society sees itself reflected."
Art
"We are haunted by the ghosts of our own choices."
Life
"History repeats itself because we refuse to learn from it."
History
"The poor do not need our pity, they need our justice."
Justice
"Silence can speak louder than a thousand words."
Solitude
"Love without truth is just a pleasant illusion."
Love
"We create meaning in a meaningless universe through our actions."
Philosophy
"Death is not the opposite of life, but part of it."
Death