More Quotes by José Saramago
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
Each day is a little bit of history
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.
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.