One of England’s most divisive celebrities of the time, Lord Byron lived a short but powerful life. This British Romantic poet is famous for his satirical realism, which was seen in Don Juan. His poetry was influenced by a rejection from his distant cousin who then became his muse for an idolized and unattainable love. Traverse through time with these impressionable Lord Byron quotes.
38 Impactful Lord Byron Quotes On Love, Heartbreak and Other Things
Lord Byron Quotes on Heartbreak and Sorrow
#1. “The heart will break, but broken live on.”― Lord George Gordon Byron
#2. “In secret we met, In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee, After long years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears.” ― Lord Byron
#3. “Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” ― Lord George Gordon Byron
#4. “What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?” ― Lord George Gordon Byron
#5. “When we two parted, In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss; Truly that hour foretold, Sorrow to this.” ― Lord Byron
Lord Byron Quotes on Nature
#6. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.” ― Lord Byron
Lord Byron Quotes Imparting Wisdom
#7. “Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” ― Lord Byron
#8. “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
#9. “Adversity is the first path to truth.” ― Lord Byron
#10. “Tis strange,―but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!” ― Lord Byron, Don Juan
#11. “I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.” ― Lord Byron
#12. “If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.” ― Lord Byron
Lord Byron Quotes on Love, Beauty, and Friendship
#13. “Friendship is love without wings.” ― Lord Byron
#14. “She walks in beauty, like the night, Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright, Meet in her aspect and her eyes.” ― Lord Byron
#15. “There are four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.” ― Lord Byron
#16. “You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?” ― Lord Byron
#17. “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” ― Lord Byron
#18. “The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole, And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!” ― Lord Byron
Lord Byron Quotes on Life and Death
#19. “The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain.” ― Lord Byron
#20. “Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” ― Lord Byron
#21. “They never fail who die in a great cause.” ― Lord Byron
#22. “I am ashes where once I was fire.” ― Lord Byron, Selected Poems
Lord Byron Quotes on Happiness
#23. “All who joy would win, Must share it―Happiness was born a twin.” ― Lord Byron, Don Juan
#24. “To have joy, one must share it.” ― Lord Byron
#25. “On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin’d.” ― Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Lord Byron Quotes on Writing
#26. “If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.” ― Lord Byron
#27. “But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces, that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.” ― Lord Byron
#28. “Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.” ― Lord Byron
Lord Byron Quotes on Religion
#29. “There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”― Lord Byron
#30. “I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying, I may be damned.” ― Lord Byron
Lord Byron Quotes on Women
#31. “A woman being never at a loss. the devil always sticks by them.” ― Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals
#32. “Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.” ― Lord Byron
Other Lord Byron Quotes
#33. “Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire―in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?” ― Lord George Gordon Byron
#34. “I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.” ― George Gordon, Lord Byron
#35. “If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.” ― George Gordon Byron
#36. “I live not in myself, but I become, Portion of that around me: and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.” ― Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
#37. “Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt, In solitude, where we are least alone.” ― Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
#38. “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” ― Lord Byron
Conclusion
Lord Byron often dwelled on heartbreaks and desires that weren’t completely fulfilled. He is still widely read and studied for his satire and realism. These Lord Byron quotes give you fantastic insights into the complex world of love, life, death and women.
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