Miguel de Unamuno Love Quotations

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

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

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

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.

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