Pedro Calderon De La Barca Quotes & Sayings

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

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. — 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

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

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

What is life? a tale that is told;
What is life? a frenzy extreme,
A shadow of things that seem;
And the greatest good is but small,
That all life is a dream to all,
And that dreams themselves are a dream.
-Segismundo — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion,
A shadow, a delirium, a fiction.
The greatest good's but little, and this life
Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart! — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

One may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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

Restless sunflower; cease to move. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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

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

And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives,
Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake,
How if our waking life, like that of sleep,
Be all a dream in that eternal life
To which we wake not till we sleep in death — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Love that is not madness is not love. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou
Who gazest ever true and tender
On the sun's revolving splendour. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time. — 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

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Here am bound, the scorn of fate; 'Twas a dream that once a state I enjoyed of light and gladness. What is life? 'Tis but a madness. What is life? A thing that seems, A mirage that falsely gleams, Phantom joy, delusive rest, Since is life a dream at best, And even dreams themselves are dreams. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

in this world All who live but dream they act here. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

For man's greatest crime is to have been born. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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

Even in dreams doing good is not wasted. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca