Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Miguel de Unamuno

• Comedy
• Tragedy
• Eternity
• Essence
• Killing

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• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

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• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

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• To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  

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• I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

  

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• Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

  

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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

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• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

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• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  

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• I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

  

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• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  

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• Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

  

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• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

  

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• A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

  

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• Pig, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

  

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• People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

  

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• My best actress of all time is Kate Winslet. I want to be just like her. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is one of my favourite films.

  

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• When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

  

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• I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

  

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• Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

  

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• I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

  

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• No one gets found in love. Everyone gets lost in it, Because love is overwhelming. Its beyond your control. You have to relinquish control to be in love. And that’s a good thing. There’s a beauty to being lost in something bigger than you.

  

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• After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

  

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  • Fun
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• I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
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• And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy
  • Eternity