Quotes by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

About Pedro Calderon de la Barca:

Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño is regarded as one of Spain's foremost dramatists and one of the finest playwrights of world literature.
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¡Ay mísero de mí, y ay infelice! Apurar, cielos, pretendo, ya que me tratáis así, qué delito cometí contra vosotros naciendo. Aunque si nací, ya entiendo qué delito he cometido; bastante causa ha tenido vuestra justicia y rigor, pues el deli...

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A reinar, fortuna, vamos; no me despiertes, si duermo, y si es verdad, no me duermas.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

ROSAURA Soy de Estrella una infelice dama. SEGISMUNDO No digas tal; di el sol, a cuya llama aquella estrella vive, pues de tus rayos resplandor recibe. Yo vi en reino de olores que presidía entre comunes flores la deidad de la rosa; y era su emperat...

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Qué es la vida? Un frenesí. ¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión, una sombra, una ficción, y el mayor bien es pequeño: que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son

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

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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,...

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In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

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Love that is not madness is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

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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

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.

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

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For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

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

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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.

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Nature quotes by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, UberQuotes

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

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When love is not madness, it is not love.

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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NamePedro Calderon de la Barca
  • Descriptiondramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age
  • AliasesPedro Calderón de la Barca
  • BornJanuary 17, 1600
  • DiedMay 25, 1681
  • CountrySpain
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Poet; Writer