Antonio Machado Quotes

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

Antonio Machado

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• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Take

• I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Fear
  • Amazing
  • Water

• People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Death
  • Own

• You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Why
  • Want
  • Fear

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Age
  • Fear
  • Old Age

• Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Fear

• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peaceful

• I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fear
  • Chance
  • Same

• I don't fear anything now.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Fear
  • Now
  • Anything

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Good
  • Death

• Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • School
  • High

• Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Fear

• I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Done
  • Death
  • Best

• I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Death
  • Blame

• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Exist

• It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Business
  • Remember

• I'm obsessed with 'The Americans.' It's one of my favorite shows. I also love 'Baskets' - low-brow, high-art comedy.

  

  Jay Duplass
  • Art
  • High
  • Comedy

• We'd better send For God. He will remember and tell us all.

  

  Adam Mickiewicz
  • God
  • Remember
  • Send

• I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Care
  • Baby
  • Hockey

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

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Death
  • Fear