Pedro Calderon de la Barca famous quotes

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

#Nature #Color #Earth Day

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

#Love #Life #Dream

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

#Light #Sunflower #Enchanted

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

#Dream #What Matters #Awakening

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

#Heartbreak #Morning #Flower

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

#Victory #Gains #Use

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

#Lying #Color #Perspective

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Men #Birth #Crime

At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Affection #Adore

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Heart #World

Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Fall #Air #Secret

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Dream #Life Is #Life Is A Dream

Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Grief #Two #Hydra

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Beauty #Together #Agree

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Two #Charity #Sake

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Heart #Divine

Restless sunflower; cease to move.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Moving #Sunflower #Restless

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Time #Years #Yield

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

#Real #Perfect #Crucible

Great events have sent before them their announcements.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Events #Announcements

The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Foxes #Cunning

All just laws condemn cruelty.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Law #Cruelty

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

#Dream #Sleep #Night

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 #Lying #Loss

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Needs #Treasure #Doers

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

#Sweet #Law #Bird

They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Advice

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

#Dream #Deeds #Good Deeds

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Stronger #Needs #Matrimony

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

#Love #Relationship #Meaningful

To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Kings #Giving #Soul

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

#Dream #Passion #Men