José Saramago
Writer
| Date of Birth | : | 16 November, 1922 |
| Date of Death | : | 18 June, 2010 (Aged 87) |
| Place of Birth | : | Azinhaga, Portugal |
| Profession | : | Writer |
| Nationality | : | Portuguese |
José de Sousa Saramago GColSE GColCa was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
Each day is a little bit of history
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.