1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea’s shore, All ashes to the taste.

If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.

In general I do not draw well with literary men – not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

There’s not a sea the passenger e’er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

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?

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom’d for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

The devil was the first democrat.

Liberty – eternal spirit of the chainless mind.