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 BYRONMy heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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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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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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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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I learned to love despair.
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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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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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