Lord Byron Quotes, Suicide Quotes, Dream Quotes

A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

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Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

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Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.

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No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

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I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

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Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.

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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

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When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

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Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

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My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

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Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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Frienship is eros...without wings

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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

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Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

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Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

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Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

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