It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

— Miguel de Unamuno

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Science says: "We must live" and seeks the means of prolonging increasing facilitating and amplifying life of making it tolerable and acceptable wisdom says: "We must die" and seeks how to make us die well.

— Miguel de Unamuno