I awoke one day to find myself famous.
LORD BYRONIt is when we think we lead that we are most led.
More Lord Byron Quotes
-
-
Damn description, it is always disgusting.
LORD BYRON -
I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
LORD BYRON -
Absence – that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON -
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
LORD BYRON -
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
LORD BYRON -
Think not I am what I appear.
LORD BYRON -
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
LORD BYRON -
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
LORD BYRON -
Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
LORD BYRON -
I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
LORD BYRON -
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON -
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
LORD BYRON -
The heart will break, but broken live on.
LORD BYRON -
The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
LORD BYRON -
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
LORD BYRON