The heart will break, but broken live on. Lord Byron on movingon
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. Lord Byron on nature
I love not man the less, but Nature more. Lord Byron on nature
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! Lord Byron on poetry
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. Lord Byron on poetry
I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. Lord Byron on politics
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. Lord Byron on religion
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 sad
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 smile
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. Lord Byron on society
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. Lord Byron on trust
Adversity is the first path to truth. Lord Byron on truth
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? Lord Byron on truth
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 truth
For truth is always strange stranger than fiction. Lord Byron on truth
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron on truth
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. Lord Byron on wedding
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 wedding
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 wisdom
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. Lord Byron on wisdom