9 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 on dreams

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca on dreams

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca on dreams

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 on good

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca on love

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 on morning

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca on nature

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 on truth

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca on war