Some Outstanding Quotations From Novel Death With Interruptions

Death with Interruptions or Death with Intervals is a 2005 novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago. Saramago was awarded Nobel prize for literature in 1998, Saramago is well-known for his unique style of writing fiction, as he didn't use the conventional method of novel writing as the novel is written in a style almost akin to stream of consciousness.

 He avoided using quotations to signify speech, instead relying on inline text, and the usage of capitalization to signify the start of a new speaker's words. He avoided the capitalization of proper names of people or places, and especially of his protagonist "death" who emphatically insists that her name be written lowercase.

The story moved around death as both a phenomenon, and as an anthropomorphized character. The main focus of the novel is how society relates to death in both of these forms, and likewise, how death relates to the people she is meant to kill.

Here are some outstanding quotations that would touch your heart, most of the quotes are related to death:

* Without death there is no resurrection and without resurrection there is no church.

* Philosophy needs death as much as religions do.

* This is what life is, what it gives in one hand, takes away with other.

* I care less about the answers than I do about questions, notice that our questions have both an obvious objective and a hidden intention and when we ask them, it is not only that the person being questioned gives the answers, which at that moment, we need him to hear himself saying it is also in order to prepare the way for future answers.

* The church, has grown so accustomed to eternal answers that I can't imagine it giving any other kind even if reality contradicts them, we've done nothing but contradict reality from the outset and yet we're still here.

* They were neither dead nor alive. Death no longer kills.

* I would immediately issue a new thesis, that of death post-poned.

* The church has never been asked to explaining anything, our specialty along with ballistics, has always been the neutralization of the overly curious mind through faith.