Pedro Calderon
Pedro Calderon
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest. Born when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre...
dreams good greatest life themselves
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
dream dreams good greatest life quotes
What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
dreams life quotes themselves
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
dream life-is life-is-a-dream
All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.
dream sleep night
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
dream treasure life-is
Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.
dream what-matters awakening
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.
dream deeds good-deeds
For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
dream passion men
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.
dream doing-good
Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.
love life dream
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.
love madness
Love that is not madness is not love.
greatest loss pain
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
kings giving soul
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.