More Quotes by José Saramago
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
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.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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.
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...
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.