“And yet methinks the older that one growsInclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughterLeaves us so doubly serious shortly after.”
More from Lord Byron on Life
“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.”
“Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.”
“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
“The busy have no time for tears.”
“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.”
“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!”
“We are all the fools of time and terror: DaysSteal on us and steal from us; yet we live,Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”
“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
“This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone a...”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”