Saramago Nobel Quotes & Sayings

All Christian religions are outer-directed. "Who can I convert?" "Let's go to this country and make them Christians." "Wear this." "Do that." "No, don't worship that way. Worship this way or I'll kill you - for the good of your soul, of course." Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach. — George Carlin

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them. — Otto Preminger

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***. — Gene Simmons

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all. — Jose Saramago

all children are born into a losing struggle with death — Christopher Hitchens

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things. — David Halberstam

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. — Jose Saramago