# Quote — José Saramago, The Cave

> Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

- Author: [José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md)
- Book: [The Cave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave.md)
- Page: 112
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago#The_Cave_(2000)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/lord-knows-why

## More from this book

> The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.

p. 4 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/the-young-have.md)

> Life 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.

p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/life-is-like.md)

> Where do begin, he asked, Where you always have to begin, at the beginning,

p. 53 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/where-do-begin.md)