Quote

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.

Jose Saramago

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
Chronicler
Diarist
Dramaturge
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
Jose Saramago
Time
Pain
Heals
Live
Wounds
Nothing
Test
Enough
Heal
Feel
Tests
Feels
Later
Long
Theory
Never
Worst

More quotes by Jose Saramago

Image
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
Jose Saramago
Image
That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
Jose Saramago
Image
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Jose Saramago
Image
We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.
Jose Saramago
Image
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.
Jose Saramago
Image
Each day is a little bit of history
Jose Saramago
Image
just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
Jose Saramago
Image
Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
Jose Saramago
Image
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
Jose Saramago
Image
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.
Jose Saramago
Image
Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
Jose Saramago
Image
Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
Jose Saramago
Image
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
Jose Saramago
Image
En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
Jose Saramago
Image
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
Jose Saramago
Image
Death is the inventor of God.
Jose Saramago
Image
Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
Jose Saramago
Image
...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.
Jose Saramago
Image
It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
Jose Saramago
Image
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
Jose Saramago