# Blindness

- Author: [José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md)
- Quotes: 15
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness

## Quotes

> Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

p. 276 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/inside-us-there.md)

> The doctor's wife reads the street signs as she goes along, she remembers some of them, others not at all, and there comes a moment when she realises that she has lost her way. There is no doubt, she is lost. She took a turning, then another, she no longer remembers the streets or their names, then in her distress, she sat down on the filthy ground, thick with black mud, and, drained of any strength, of all strength, she burst into tears. The dogs gathered round her, sniffed at the bags, but without much conviction, as if their hour for eating had passed, one of them licks her face, perhaps it had been used to drying tears ever since it was a puppy. The woman strokes its head, runs her hand down its drenched back, and she weeps the rest of her tears embracing the dog.

p. 234 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/the-doctors-wife.md)

> If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

p. 116 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/if-we-cannot.md)

> If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/if-you-can.md)

> That night the blind man dreamt that he was blind.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/that-night-the.md)

> Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.

p. 2 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/some-drivers-have.md)

> Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

p. 326 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/do-you-want.md)

> How are you, doctor, that is what we say when we do not wish to play the weakling, we say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/how-are-you.md)

> Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.

p. 290 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/blind-people-do-not.md)

> The sceptics, who are many and stubborn, claim that, when it comes to human nature, if it is true that the opportunity does not always make the thief, it is also true that it helps a lot.

p. 16 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/the-sceptics-who.md)

> Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

p. 126 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/perhaps-only-in-a-world.md)

> If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

p. 290 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/if-im-sincere.md)

> This is the stuff we're made of, half indifference and half malice.

p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/this-is-the.md)

> The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

p. 284 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/the-difficult-thing.md)

> Blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/blindness/blindness-is-a-private.md)