My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
George Gordon Byron Quotes
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Allah given
To lift from earth our low desire.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five.
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I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever
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There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
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He who is only just is cruel.
Who on earth could live were all judged justly
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep,
And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.