More Quotes by Lord Byron
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
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.
