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 BYRONThis is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I learned to love despair.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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