More Quotes by José Saramago
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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.
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.
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.