Saramago

"We are less afraid of the dark than of what the light reveals."

"We are dying, all of us, but some of us don't know it yet."

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

"Blindness is not just the absence of sight, but the absence of vision."

"A person is not just a body, but also a story."

"We should be capable of denying what we have been told, of doubting what seems proven, of rejecting what is unanimous."

"Time doesn't heal all wounds; it only makes us forget why we are still bleeding."

"The world is not divided into the happy and the unhappy, but into the living and the dead."

"History is what we make of it, not what it makes of us."

"To love is to lose control and that's the hardest thing for a writer to admit."

"We live as if we are going to live forever, and then we die unprepared."

"Knowledge without conscience is like a ship without a rudder."

"The only certainty we have is that we will die, so we should live accordingly."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"To be human is to be incomplete, always searching for what we lack."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice."

"We are all blind until we see with our hearts."

"The future is not predetermined; it is built by our daily choices."

"Happiness is not a destination; it is a practice we engage in every moment."

"Justice requires that we see not just with our eyes, but with our conscience."

"Technology is not progress unless it serves human dignity."

"The greatest adventure is understanding ourselves."

"Literature is a mirror in which we see ourselves reflected."

"To create is to rebel against the order of things."

"We cannot change the past, but we can refuse to repeat it."

"The truth is harder to find than we think, and easier to ignore."

"Music is the language spoken when words fail us."

"Patience is not weakness; it is the ultimate form of strength."

"We are all searching for meaning in a world that may have none."

"Fear is the greatest enemy of freedom."