George Gordon Byron
England
22 Jan 1788 // 19 Apr 1824
Poet
22 Jan 1788 // 19 Apr 1824
Poet
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Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of self in all their speculations
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep
In solitude, where we are least alone
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays