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 BYRONWe 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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