More Quotes by José Saramago
We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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.
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
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.
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
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...