92 Quotes by Antonio Machado

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.