José Saramago - Death Quotes

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... I'm not able to fear death... We will all turn skeletons and everything shall end. The skeleton becomes, therefore, the most radical form of nudity.

José Saramago
I think that we do not deserve life, I think that religions have been and continue to be instruments of domination and death.

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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

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

José Saramago
Yes [death has become a taboo]. Today people want to avoid the subject and hide the deaths that happen around them. It is as if the world were a hotel where the dead usually disappear at night, without any guest being able to notice their presence. While movies and television address death, they do not touch the fundamental point of finitude. The deaths are false, the good guys get shot and come back to life. It's another way of treating death as unreal.

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Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

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Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

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Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

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