This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.
Jose SaramagoAmericans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
Jose SaramagoWe know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.
Jose SaramagoLife is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.
Jose Saramago