Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

The more I suffer, the more I love.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

Pain is love.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

Suffering does not change its face.

True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

There is no love without suffering.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.