Jose Saramago Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

  Jose Saramago

  Heart, Eye, Caught

• Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adjective, we have the excitement of seeing them coming irresistibly to the surface through the skin and the eyes and upsetting the composure of our feelings, sometimes the nerves that can not bear it any longer, they put up with a great deal, they put up with everything, it was as if they were wearing armor, we might say.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Simple, Two

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

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Matter, Born

• With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Mirrors, Blood

• The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Appreciate, Musical

• Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain... It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, People, Brain

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

• There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Sight, Touching

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

• Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.

  Jose Saramago

  Death, Eye, Minutes

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