Lord Byron Quotes

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end of love.) (Goodness?) (Do not be a fool.) (God?) (If God exists, He is not to be believed in.)

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past -- whether he admits it or not -- can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Truth Alone Triumphs

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

Honesty is love.

I have faith in the people. Honesty will prosper.

Even if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in love.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

'T is impious in a good man to be sad.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!