José Saramago, Blindness Quotes
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.
... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...
We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep…
The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.
what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves
Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune...
We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…