Saramago

"We are dying, all of us, but we act as if we were immortal."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"I believe that the world is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

"If you want to see the invisible, you must learn to look beyond the visible."

"The problem is that we have constructed our world on contradictions, and now we must live with them."

"Literature serves to transform experience into understanding."

"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."

"Every person is a library of experiences and stories waiting to be discovered."

"The greatest love stories are those written in the margins of ordinary days."

"To understand history, one must first understand the silence of those not recorded."

"Art is the only honest lie we allow ourselves."

"We are all passengers on a ship we did not board, sailing toward a destination we do not know."

"Justice is not blind; it is willfully closing its eyes."

"The imagination has more power than knowledge ever could possess."

"In every human being, there exists a capacity for both cruelty and compassion."

"Words are the only monuments we leave behind that do not crumble."

"To be truly alive, one must be willing to be vulnerable."

"The greatest discoveries come not from seeking answers, but from questioning what we think we know."

"Time is the one thing we cannot negotiate with, bargain with, or bribe."

"Happiness is not a destination but a manner of traveling."

"We live as if we are permanent, yet we are as temporary as morning mist."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple, especially when it concerns the human heart."

"Every act of kindness creates a ripple whose end we will never see."

"Fear is the price we pay for being alive and aware."

"What we call progress is often just a more sophisticated form of the same old mistakes."

"The beauty of nature lies not in its perfection but in its indifference to our judgment."

"To be silent when you should speak is to become an accomplice to injustice."

"Memory is the only thing that truly survives us."

"The most profound truths are often hidden in plain sight."

"We create meaning not by discovering it, but by the choices we make."