79 Quotes By Lord Byron


Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron on god

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron on great

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron on great

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron on great

They never fail who die in a great cause.
Lord Byron on great

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron on happiness

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron on happiness

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron on hope

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Lord Byron on hope

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron on jealousy

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron on knowledge

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron on life

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron on life

Absence - that common cure of love.
Lord Byron on love

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron on love

Who loves, raves.
Lord Byron on love

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron on love

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron on love

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Lord Byron on men

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron on men