The most famous lines from Life Is a Dream
The top 3 according to 7 votes from people: What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction… for all of life is a dream, and dreams are only dreams. · For man's greatest crime is to have been born. · The king dreams he is king, and lives deceived, ruling.. (Updated Feb 4, 2020.)
Segismundo locked in his tower, the 'and dreams are only dreams' soliloquy and other lines by Calderón de la Barca still quoted almost four centuries later, with their act.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 11
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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction… for all of life is a dream, and dreams are only dreams.
Segismundo, Act Two, scene XIX.
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For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
Segismundo, Act One (the tower soliloquy).
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The king dreams he is king, and lives deceived, ruling.
Segismundo, Act Two, scene XIX.
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Oh, wretched me! Oh, unhappy me! Heavens, I seek to know, since you treat me so, what crime I committed against you by being born.
Segismundo, Act One.
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But whether it be truth or dream, doing good is what matters.
Segismundo, Act Three.
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Violent hippogriff that raced the wind…
Rosaura, Act One, scene I: the play's opening lines.
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I dream that I am here, laden with these chains, and I dreamed I once saw myself in a happier state.
Segismundo, Act Two, scene XIX.
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They say a wise man was once so poor and wretched that he lived only on the herbs he gathered.
Rosaura, Act One; the stanza ends with another wise man picking up the leaves he threw away.
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He whom knowledge harms is his own murderer.
King Basilio, Act One, scene VI.
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For in such battles the victors are the loyal ones, the vanquished the traitors.
King Basilio, Act Three.
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He speaks best, my lord, who best keeps silent.
Rosaura to Segismundo, Act Three, scene VIII.
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