Lord Byron Quotes

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

Can't complain because nobody listens.

...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

I just don't see anybody that's particularly interested in fixing that.

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

I'm in a rut deep enough to hang posters.

What difference, at this point, does it make?

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.