Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

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

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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