641 Quotes by José Saramago

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.

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

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

...in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.