Lord Byron

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”

“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”

“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 what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”

“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.”

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.”

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”

“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!”

“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”

“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”

“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”

“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”

“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”