Pedro Calderon de la Barca Professions : Dramatist Born : January 17, 1600 Died : May 25, 1681 Browse All Authors Top 37 quotes by Pedro Calderon de la Barca What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca dream love life Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca green-world color nature In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it Pedro Calderon de la Barca perspective color lying Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Pedro Calderon de la Barca enchanted sunflower light But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. Pedro Calderon de la Barca what-matters awakening dream For man's greatest crime is to have been born. Pedro Calderon de la Barca birth crime men When love is not madness, it is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca love romantic relationship Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come? Pedro Calderon de la Barca speak-no-evil thee deserve For even in dreams a good deed is not lost. Pedro Calderon de la Barca good-deeds deeds dream No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure. Pedro Calderon de la Barca nice self men Restless sunflower; cease to move. Pedro Calderon de la Barca restless sunflower moving Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca treasure life-is dream All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca life-is-a-dream life-is dream Even in dreams doing good is not wasted. Pedro Calderon de la Barca doing-good dream One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. Pedro Calderon de la Barca victory use war The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth. Pedro Calderon de la Barca divine heart Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man. Pedro Calderon de la Barca passion dream men How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart! Pedro Calderon de la Barca knowledge-of-the-world heart world Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born. Pedro Calderon de la Barca hydra grief two These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. Pedro Calderon de la Barca heartbreak flower morning Similar Authors Brian Friel dramatist Antoine-Marin Lemierre dramatist Aphra Behn dramatist Arnold Wesker dramatist Armand Salacrou dramatist Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza dramatist All Authors
