More Quotes by José Saramago
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
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.
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.
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
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...