More Quotes by José Saramago
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
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...
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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.