I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
LORD BYRONThere’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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!
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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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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