
“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream
But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.”
Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
¿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.
Variant:
What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion,
A shadow, a delirium, a fiction.
The greatest good's but little, and this life
Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams.
(trans. Roy Campbell)
Segismundo, Act II, l. 1195.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
Last paragraph of section III of Antidotes for fear, page 122 (see link at top of the section)
1960s, Strength to Love (1963)
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”