More Quotes by José Saramago
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
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.
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...
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.