Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

Life is stronger than death.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die

If you know how to live, even death is good news

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

Before I die, I want to fight for life.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.