If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
Jos Saramago, Blindness.
“blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.”
“... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...”
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
“You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of...”
“If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginabl...”
“We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep”
“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”
“I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”
“Regrets came up and asked me if Id like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldnt leave this relationship empty handed.”
“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.”
“Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.”
“It's too late.I chose life too late.”
“It is not perhaps a question of truthfulness; it is rather a natural incapacity to think for herself, to take cognizance of herself in her own brain, and not in the eyes and in the lips of others; ...”
“If you dont stand sincere by your wordshow sincere can the people be?Take great care over words, treasure them.1.17”
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to th...”