Lord Byron Quotes

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Life is an empty dream.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

Everything means nothing to me

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.

A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

Nothing makes sense, why should I?

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.

Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.