# Quote — José Saramago, All The Names

> a waiting, stagnant darkness, thick and silent as the ocean deeps

- Author: [José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md)
- Book: [All The Names](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names.md)
- Page: 107
- Original (pt): uma escuridão parada à espera, espessa e silenciosa como o fundo do mar
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago#All_the_Names_(1997)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names/a-waiting-stagnant

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> What the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve over.

p. 185 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names/what-the-eye.md)

> No life is without its lies.

p. 172 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names/no-life-is-without.md)

> No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

p. 48 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names/no-there-are.md)