More Quotes by José Saramago
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.
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 difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
