“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book 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”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book 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)
William Sharp (writer) (1855–1905) Scottish writer
From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Life is a Dream
¿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)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
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