Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes

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

Nature, Color, Green

When love is not madness, it is not love.
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

Life, Dreams, Good

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

Time, Truth, Friends

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

War, May, Victory

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

Life, Dreams, Dream

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

God, Law, Reason

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

Morning, Evening, Night

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

Dreams, Good, Lost

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Pain, Greatest, Lie

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Dramatist

Born: January 17, 1600

Died: May 25, 1681

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