Inspirational Quote by Miguel de Unamuno Download Open image “What is vanity but the longing to survive?” — Miguel de Unamuno ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Longing Love Nostalgia Pride Vanity
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away. — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith,… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
