More Quotes by José Saramago
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
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 best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.
As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.