Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
LORD BYRONWhy I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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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.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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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!
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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The busy have no time for tears.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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