Top 40 Antonio Machado Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.”

— Antonio Machado

2. “Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.”

— Antonio Machado

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3. “Life is the path you beat while you walk it It’s the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk.”

— Antonio Machado

4. “Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.”

— Antonio Machado

5. “What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?”

— Antonio Machado

6. “Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.”

— Antonio Machado

7. “My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.”

— Antonio Machado

8. “Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.”

— Antonio Machado

9. “Don’t try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.”

— Antonio Machado

10. “Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.”

— Antonio Machado

11. “I dreamt – marvellous error! – that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

— Antonio Machado

12. “I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.”

— Antonio Machado

13. “Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.”

— Antonio Machado

14. “By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path.”

— Antonio Machado

15. “Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.”

— Antonio Machado

16. “Todo necio confunde valor y precio.”

— Antonio Machado

17. “Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.”

— Antonio Machado

18. “In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.”

— Antonio Machado

19. “Life is the path you beat while you walk it.”

— Antonio Machado

20. “My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else.”

— Antonio Machado

21. “Death is something we shouldn’t fear because, while we are, death isn’t, and when death is, we aren’t.”

— Antonio Machado

22. “Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt – marvellous error! – That it was God I had here inside my heart.”

— Antonio Machado

23. “The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one’s virtues.”

— Antonio Machado

24. “The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.”

— Antonio Machado

25. “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.”

— Antonio Machado

26. “The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.”

— Antonio Machado

27. “The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.”

— Antonio Machado

28. “Man’s passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.”

— Antonio Machado

29. “There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.”

— Antonio Machado

30. “Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.”

— Antonio Machado

31. “I. Don’t trace out your profile – forget your side view – all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren’t.”

— Antonio Machado

32. “All our efforts must tend towards light.”

— Antonio Machado

33. “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.”

— Antonio Machado

34. “Life is long and art a toy.”

— Antonio Machado

35. “At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.”

— Antonio Machado

36. “My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.”

— Antonio Machado

37. “Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.”

— Antonio Machado

38. “No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.”

— Antonio Machado

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

— Antonio Machado

40. “Man would be “otherwise.” That’s the essence of the specifically human.”

— Antonio Machado

41. “There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.”

— Antonio Machado