Miguel de Unamuno Quotes about Love

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

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

Love, Funny, Dream

Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.146, Princeton University Press

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

Love, Life, Sad

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.

Miguel de Unamuno

Love, Men, Suffering

Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.289, tredition

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

Miguel de Unamuno

Love, Daughter, Mother

Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.134, Courier Corporation