Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
Miguel de UnamunoHe who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.
Miguel de UnamunoLove personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
Miguel de UnamunoWe should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
Miguel de UnamunoSpiritual 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.
Miguel de Unamuno