How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart! Pedro Calderon de la Barca More Quotes by Pedro Calderon de la Barca More Quotes From 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 dreamlovelife Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca green-worldcolornature 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 perspectivecolorlying Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Pedro Calderon de la Barca enchantedsunflowerlight 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-mattersawakeningdream For man's greatest crime is to have been born. Pedro Calderon de la Barca birthcrimemen When love is not madness, it is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca loveromanticrelationship 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-eviltheedeserve For even in dreams a good deed is not lost. Pedro Calderon de la Barca good-deedsdeedsdream 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 niceselfmen Restless sunflower; cease to move. Pedro Calderon de la Barca restlesssunflowermoving Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca treasurelife-isdream All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca life-is-a-dreamlife-isdream Even in dreams doing good is not wasted. Pedro Calderon de la Barca doing-gooddream One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. Pedro Calderon de la Barca victoryusewar The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth. Pedro Calderon de la Barca divineheart 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 passiondreammen Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born. Pedro Calderon de la Barca hydragrieftwo 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 heartbreakflowermorning If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation. Pedro Calderon de la Barca pretty-womanher-beautyneeds
