More Quotes by José Saramago
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...
The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
Each day is a little bit of history