More Quotes by José Saramago
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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.
As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
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.
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
Each day is a little bit of history
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...
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.