“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth.”

— Lord Byron, Manfred (1817), Act I, Scene 1

About Lord Byron

1788 – 1824

English Romantic poet, author of 'Don Juan' and 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'.

“When we think we lead, we are most led.”

“I am not now that which I have been.”

“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!”

“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“Something the heart must have to cherish, must love and joy and sorrow learn.”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

“Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death.”

“Indeed, wisdom is born of meditation; without meditation wisdom is lost.”