Blindness By Jose Saramago Quotes

#1. The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.

Karen Thompson Walker

#2. Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

Sigmund Freud

#3. Blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

Jose Saramago

#4. Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Simone Weil

#5. That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead.

Jose Saramago

#6. The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

Jose Saramago

#7. You have no idea what it is like to watch two blind people fighting. Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness.

Jose Saramago

#8. Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer,

Jose Saramago

#9. [ ... ]certainly not one of them would have known what to reply if they had been asked, Why are you holding hands as you go, it simply came about, there are gestures for which we cannot always find an easy explanation, sometimes not even a difficult one can be found.

Jose Saramago

#10. And now we shall also die of blindness, I mean, we shall die of blindness and cancer, of blindness and tuberculosis, of blindness and AIDS, of blindness and heart attacks, illnesses may differ from one person to another but what is really killing us now is blindness

Jose Saramago

#11. I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

Criss Jami

#12. ... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...

Jose Saramago

#13. All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

Susan Blackmore

#14. With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.

Jose Saramago

#15. Fear can cause blindness ... we were already blind the moment we turned blind, fear struck us blind, fear will keep us blind

Jose Saramago

#16. The only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.

Jose Saramago

#17. We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness

Jose Saramago

#18. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

Marcel Duchamp

#19. I follow the Dr. Peter D'Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It's an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual ... and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken.

Miranda Kerr

#20. Blindness is also this, to live in a world where all hope is gone.

Jose Saramago

#21. ...when we listen to the Spirit, we hear a deeper sound, a different beat. ...Living a spiritually mature life requires listening to God's voice within and among us.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#22. Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#23. There must be a government, said the first blind man, I'm not so sure, but there is, it will be a government of the blind trying to rule the blind, that is to say, nothingness trying to organize nothingness.

Jose Saramago

#24. Everything is the story.

Rainbow Rowell