Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.