Jose Saramago Quotes

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

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.

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...

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

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.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.

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.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

Each day is a little bit of history

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.