“That which I am, I am; I did not seek for life, nor did I make myself.”

— Lord Byron, Cain (1821), Act III, 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!”

“A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self.”

“Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.”

“Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary?"”

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.”

“Life is our dictionary.”

“Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!”