George Gordon Byron

Quotes

• “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,B...”
• “In secret we met -In silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long yea...”
• “The light of love, the purity of grace,The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised ...”
• “But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see ...”
• “She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in he...”
• “We are all the fools of time and terror: DaysSteal on us and steal from us; yet we live,Loathing our life, and dreading ...”
• “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
• “There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
• “I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
• “Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
• “The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.”
• “The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
• “A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.”
• “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
• “If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
• “I awoke one morning to find myself famous.”
• “They never fail who die in a great cause.”