More Quotes by José Saramago
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 best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
Each day is a little bit of history
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
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...
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.