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...
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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.
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.