...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.
Jose SaramagoNothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
Jose SaramagoEverything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.
Jose Saramago