More Quotes by José Saramago
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night 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 journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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.
We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.
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...