Cain Quotes

“LUCIFER: I pity thee who lovest what must perish.
CAIN: And I thee who lov'st nothing”
― Lord Byron, Cain: A Mystery

“LUCIFER: They say what they must sing and say on pain
Of being that which I am and thou art--
Of spirits and of men.

CAIN: And what is that?

LUCIFER: Souls who dare use their immortality,
Souls who dare look the omnipotent tyrant in
His everlasting face and tell him that
His evil is not good!”
― George Gordon Byron, Cain: A Mystery

“Homage he has from all - but none from me...
I battle it against him, as I battled in highest heaven - through all eternity,
And the unfathomable gulfs of hades, and the interminable realms of space,
And the infinity of endless ages... all, all will I dispute.
-Lucifer”
― George Gordon Byron, Cain: A Mystery

“Let him! He is great but in his greatness he is no happier than we in our conflict! Goodness would not make evil; and what else hath he made? but let him sit on his vast solitary throne, creating worlds to make eternity less burthensome to his immense existence.”
― George Gordon Byron, Cain: A Mystery

“I live,
But live to die; and, living, see no thing
To make death hateful, save an innate clinging,
A loathsome, and yet all invincible
Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I
Despise myself, yet cannot overcome––
And so I live. Would I had never lived!”
― Lord Byron , Cain: A Mystery

“It is not with earth, though I must till it, I feel at war..but I may not profit of what it bears of beauty,untoiling, Nor gratify my thousands swelling thoughts with knowledge, Nor allay my thousand fears of death and life.”
― George Gordon Byron, Cain: A Mystery

“And he who lieth there was childless. I have dried the fountain of gentle race..
-Cain”
― George Gordon Byron , Cain: A Mystery

“Evil and Good are things in their own essebce and not made good or evil by the giver. but if he gives you good so cal him; if evil springs from him, do not name it mine till ye know better its true fount
-Lucifer”
― George Gordon Byron, Cain: A Mystery