Quotes by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“When love is not madness, it is not love.”

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

“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.”

“What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?”

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

“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.”

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

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

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

“In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it”

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

“Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confessAn unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, ar...”

“For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.”