Seeing Quotes

“As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“الامل كالملح لا يغذي لكنه يعطى للخبز طعماً”
― جوزيه ساراماجو, Seeing

“كم مرة تأتي المخاوف لتضيف المرارة لحياتنا وفي النهاية نكتشف أن لا أساس لها ولا سبب لوجودها”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“Nascemos, e nesse momento é como se tivéssemos firmado um pacto para toda a vida, mas o dia pode chegar em que nos perguntemos Quem assinou isto por mim.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“نولد،وفي لحظة ميلادنا كما لو كنا نوقع ميثاقا للحياة للأبد،لكن في يوم ما نسأل أنفسنا من وقع هذا الميثاق بالنيابة عنا”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“اننا لهب صغير ومرتجف مهدد في كل لحظة بالخمود ونحن نعرف الخوف وقبل أي شئ يسكننا الخوف”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“It is an unwavering rule for those in power that, when it comes to heads, it is best to cut them off before they start thinking, afterwards, it might be too late.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“Casting a ballot is your irrevocable right, and no one will ever deny you that right, but just as you tell children not to play with matches, so we warn whole peoples of the dangers of playing with dynamite.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“الامل كالملح لكنه يعطى للخبز طعماً”
― جوزيه ساراماجو, Seeing

“In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny grains were rushing through the opening, each grain more eager to leave then the last, time is just like people, sometimes it’s all it can do to drag itself along, but at others, it runs like a deer and leaps like a young goat, which, when you think about it, is not saying much, since the cheetah is the fastest of all the animals, and yet it has never occurred to anyone to say of another person He runs and jumps like a cheetah, perhaps because that first comparison comes from the magical late middle ages, when gentlemen went deer-hunting and no one had ever seen a cheetah running or even heard of its existence. Languages are conservative, they always carry their archives with them and hate having to be updated.”
― Jose Saragamo, Seeing

“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf,”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“human beings are known universally as the only animals capable of lying, and while it is true that they sometimes lie out of fear and sometimes out of self-interest, they also occasionally lie because they realize, just in time, that this is the only means available to them of defending the truth.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“إن الفرق الأكيد الذي يمكن أن نعقده بين الناس ليس تقسيمهم إلى أذكياء أو أغبياءن وإنما إلى أذكياء وأكثر ذكاءًا فمع الأغبياء نفعل ما نريد، أما الأذكياء فالحل أن نضعهم في خدمتنا، أما الأكثر ذكاءًا، خاصة عندما يكونوا جانبنا، فهم أشد خطورة بشكل جوهرين ولا يمكن أن يتلافوا ذلك، والطريف في الأمر أنهم يقولون لنا باستمرار بتصرفاتهم إن علينا أن نأخذ منهم حذرنا، لكننا عادة لا ننتبه لتحذيراتهم وبعدها علينا أن نتحمل العواقب”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“Put less respectfully, these men and women, standing before the mirror of their life, spit every day in the face of what they were with the sputum of what they are.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“I have yet to hear a single idea that was worth considering for longer than it took us to listen to it.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“(...) Nada de discursos, aqui cada um com seu desgosto e todos com a mesma pena.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“ليس هناك حب أكبر من البكاء على شخص لم تعرفه”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“((أنا أؤكد أن الصوت الابيض هو احد مظاهر العمي المدمر مثل الاخري))
((أو أحد مظاهر البصيرة))”
― جوزيه ساراماجو, Seeing

“عندما سمعها تنطق اسمها شعر في قلبه بشئ, ربما كان ظل سعادة قديمة, لا شئ سوي الظل, لكن بالرغم من كونه ظلا, فكر أنه من أجل ذلك فقط كان وجوده هنا له قيمة.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“He aprendido en este oficio que los que mandan no sólo no se detienen ante lo que nosotros llamamos absurdos, sino que se sirven de ellos para entorpecer la consciencia y aniquilar la razón.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“Os momentos perfeitos, sobretudo quando raiam o sublime, têm o gravíssimo contra da sua curta duração, o que, por óbvio, dispensaria ser mencionado se não fosse a circunstância de existir uma contrariedade maior, que é não sabermos o que fazer depois .”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“لقد تعلمت في هذه المهنة أن الذين يأمرون لا يتجاوزون فقط مانسميه نحن محالا،بل أنهم أيضا يستفيدون منه لعرقلة الوعي وإبادة العقل”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“La esperanza es como la sal, no alimenta pero da sabor al pan.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“Que não o ouça o diabo, senhor ministro, O diabo tem tão bom ouvido que não precisa que lhe digam as coisas em voz alta, Valha-nos então deus, Não vale a pena, esse é surdo de nascença.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“his career had just taken a great leap forward, he was going to pee in his chief's toilet.”
― José Saramago, Seeing