Debra Weiss > Debra's Quotes

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on 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,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
― George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

“All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”
― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
― Lord Byron

“In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears”
― Lord Byron

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
― Lord Byron

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on 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”
― Lord Byron

“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
― George Gordon Byron

“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
― George Gordon Byron

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
― Lord Byron

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction”
― George Gordon Byron

“I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
― Lord Byron

“She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes
Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone
Even of her voice, they said were like to mine;
But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty;
She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings,
The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind
To comprehend the universe: nor these
Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine,
Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not;
And tenderness-- but that I had for her;
Humility-- and that I never had.
Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own--
I loved her, and destroy'd her!”
― George Gordon Byron, The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

“If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.”
― George Gordon Byron

“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
― Lord Byron

“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
― Lord Byron

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”
― Lord Byron