Miguel De Unamuno quotes

" It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. " # Love

" All of this that is happening to me, and happening to others about me, is it reality or is it fiction? May not all of it perhaps be a dream of God, or of whomever it may be, which will vanish as soon as He wakes? And therefore when we pray to Him, and cause canticles and hymns to rise to Him, is it not that we may lull Him to sleep, rocking the cradle of His dreams? Is not the whole liturgy, of all religions, only a way perhaps of soothing God in His dreams, so that He shall not wake and cease to dream us? " # Friends and Friendship # Dreams # Prayer

" Man dies of cold, not of darkness. " # Despair # Death and Dying # Love

" Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. " # Doubt # Faith # Death and Dying

" That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. " # Fascism # Intelligence and Intellectuals # America

" We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe. " # God # Freedom # Power

" To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. " # Habit # Freedom # Power

" When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. " # Argument # Stupidity # Critics and Criticism

" For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth " # Love # Family # Death and Dying

" To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. " # Pity # Love # Spirit and Spirituality