“One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“كانت جميلة, ربما ليست الأجمل بين الحضور الأنثوي, ولكنها جميلة بصورة غير محددة, بصورة خاصة, لا يمكن شرحها بالكلمات, مثل بيت شعر يفلت معناه من المترجم, إذا كان ثمة وجود لهذا الشيء في بيت شعر.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“الموت أفضل سيدي .. الموت أفضل من هذا المصير”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“الحذر لا يفيد إلا في تأخير ما لا يمكن تجنبه.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“Algunas personas usan coraza, otras misterios”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“When I think about it, I have no idea who you are, but that's not important, what matters is that we care about each other.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“As mãos são dois livros abertos, não pelas razões, supostas ou autênticas, da quiromancia, com as suas linhas do coração e da vida, da vida, meus senhores, ouviram bem, da vida, mas porque falam quando se abrem ou se fecham, quando acariciam ou golpeiam, quando enxugam uma lágrima ou disfarçam um sorriso, quando se pousam sobre um ombro ou acenam um adeus, quando trabalham, quando estão quietas, quando dormem, quando despertam.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“الحقيقة ان العالم اكثر من متخم بحوادث مثل هذة ، هو انتظر و هي تخلفت ، هي انتظرت و هو لم يأت ، و في العمق ، و ليبق هذا بيننا نحن الارتيابيين و الجاحدين ، هذا افضل من كسر في الساق”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“You might think that after all the shameful capitulations made by the government during the ups and downs of their negotiations with the maphia ... they could sink no lower. Alas, when one advances blindly across the boggy ground of realpolitik, when pragmatism takes up the baton and conducts the orchestra, ignoring what is written in the score, you can be pretty sure that, as the imperative logic of dishonor will show, there are still, after all, a few more steps to descend.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“a vida é uma orquestra que sempre está tocando, afinada, desafinada, um paquete titanic que sempre se afunda e sempre volta à superfície”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“parece que não vês que as palavras são rótulos que se pegam às cousas, não são as cousas, nunca saberás como são as cousas, nem sequer que nomes são na realidade os seus, porque os nomes que lhes deste não são mais do que isso, os nomes que lhes deste”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“كل ما يمكن أن يحدث سيحدث و المسألة كلها مسألة وقت وحسب”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“The church has never been asked to explain anything, our specialty, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralization of the overly curious mind through faith,”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“الحياة هي أوركسترا في عزف متواصل، عزف متناسق أو نشاز، هي تايتنك تغرق باستمرار و تعود علي الدوام إلي السطح”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“Everything that will happen will happen...and if you don't get to see it.. It will be because we didn't live long enough”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“وضعت المعاني التي ترغب فيها لكلمات كان لها في نهاية المطاف معان أخرى،والأدهى أنك لا تعرف هذه المعاني الأخرى ولن تعرفها.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“naqueles cinquenta e oito segundos de música uma transpiração rítmica e melódica de qualquer vida humana, corrente ou extraordinária, pela sua trágica brevidade, pela sua intensidade desesperada, e também por causa daquele acorde final que era como um ponto em suspensão deixado no ar, no vago, em qualquer parte, como se, irremediavelmente, alguma cousa ainda tivesse ficado por dizer”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“Desde o princípio que nós não temos feito outra cousa que contradizer as realidade, e aqui estamos, Que irá dizer o papa, Se eu o fosse, perdoe-me deus a estulta vaidade de pensar-me tal, mandaria pôr imediatamente em circulação uma nova tese, a da morte adiada, Sem mais explicações, A igreja nunca se lhe pediu que explicasse fosse o que fosse, a nossa outra especialidade, além da balística, te sido neutralizar, pela fé, o espírito curioso”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“Death went on, If I'd sent you, with your taste for expeditious methods, the matter would have been resolved, but times have changed a lot lately, and one has to update the means and the systems one uses, to keep up with the new technologies, by using e-mail, for example, I've heard tell that it's the most hygienic way, one that does away with inkblots and fingerprints, besides which it's fast, you just open up outlook express on microsoft and it's gone, the difficulty would be having to work with two separate archives, one for those who use computers and another for those who don't, anyway, we've got plenty of time to think about it, they're always coming out with new models and new designs, with new improved technologies, perhaps I'll try it some day, but until then, I'll continue to write with pen, paper and ink, it has the charm of tradition, and tradition counts for a lot when it comes to dying.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
“Have you ever wondered if death is the same for all living beings, be they animals, human beings included, or plants, from the grass you walk on to the hundred-meter-tall sequoiadendron giganteum, will the death that kills a man who knows he's going to die be the same as that of a horse who never will.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
José Saramago
Born place: in Golegã, Azinhaga, Portugal
Born date November 16, 1922
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“Even the genuinely good cannot, unaided, learn to love. To penetrate beyond the absurdities, the vices, and, above all, the stupidities of human creatures, one must possess the secret of a love which the world has now forgotten. Until that secret shall have been discovered, all betterment in conditions of life will be in vain”
― François Mauriac, quote from Viper's Tangle
“para cultivar una relación, levantar una familia, crear una cultura organizativa, dirigir un colegio, alimentar la fe en la comunidad…, todo ello de un modo que básicamente se opone a las normas culturales que marca la escasez, hace falta ser consciente, comprometerse y trabajárselo... todos los días.”
― Brené Brown, quote from The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
“So many people suffer because they choose to suffer. Pain comes to us all, but suffering is a choice.”
― E.J. Squires, quote from Wraithsong
“How can v a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. 10 w With my whole heart I seek you; let me not x wander from your commandments! 11[^] [†] I have y stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. 12 Blessed are you, O LORD; z teach me your statutes! 13 With my lips I a declare all the rules [3] of your mouth. 14 In the way of your testimonies I b delight as much as in all c riches. 15 I will d meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your e ways. 16 I will f delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.”
― quote from Study Bible-ESV
“Alexis de Tocqueville, the French thinker who keenly chronicled early American society, described the consequences of ever-increasing choice more than 170 years ago:
In America I have seen the freest and best educated of men in circumstances the happiest to be found in the world; yet it seemed to me that a cloud habitually hung on their brow, and they seemed serious and almost sad even in their pleasures…. They clutch everything but hold nothing fast, and so lose grip as they hurry after some new delight.”
― Sheena Iyengar, quote from The Art of Choosing
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