I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
LORD BYRONHeaven gives its favourites-early death.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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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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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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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?
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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