More Quotes by José Saramago
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...
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
Each day is a little bit of history
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.
We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.