More Quotes by José Saramago
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.
We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.
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...
As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.