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 BYRONThere is no instinct like that of the heart.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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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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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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I learned to love despair.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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Let joy be unconfined.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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