George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement. This Lord Byron quotes about love, nature, death will motivate you.
Best Lord Byron quotes
- “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is a society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not to Man the less, but Nature more.” ~ Lord Byron
- “You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is 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.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” ~ Lord Byron
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“A drop of ink may make a million think.” ~ Lord Byron
- “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
- “I slept and dreamt that life was a beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.” ~ Lord Byron
- “The best prophet of the future is the past.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.” ~ Lord Byron
- “The great art of life is the sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” ~ Lord Byron Quotes
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“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.” ~ Lord Byron
- “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
- “There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. 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 the same. Only love.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel” ~ Lord Byron Quotes
- “I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.” ~ Lord Byron
- “What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!” ~ Lord Byron
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“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” ~ Lord Byron
- “The busy have no time for tears.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Think not I am what I appear.” ~ Lord Byron
- “They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.” ~ Lord Byron
- “To have joy, one must share it.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Let joy be unconfined.” ~ Lord Byron
- “There is music in all things if men had ears.” ~ Lord Byron
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“And gentle winds and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Death, so-called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” ~ Lord Byron
- “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 Byron
- “Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.” ~ Lord Byron
- “I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.” ~ Lord Byron
- “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
- “Man is in the part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.” ~ Lord Byron
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“Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.” ~ Lord Byron
- “The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.” ~ Lord Byron
- “There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Self-praise is no praise at all.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Eternity forbids thee to forget.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.” ~ Lord Byron
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“A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.” ~ Lord Byron
- “The heart will break, but broken live on.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.” ~ Lord Byron
- “I am not now
That which I have been.” ~ Lord Byron - “Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.” ~ Lord Byron
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“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?” ~ Lord Byron
- “There is no instinct like that of the heart.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Hatred is the madness of the heart.” ~ Lord Byron
- “A pretty woman is a welcome guest.” ~ Lord Byron
- “The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.” ~ Lord Byron
- “I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summery feeling imaginable, the first moment of a universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.” ~ Lord Byron
- “A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.” ~ Lord Byron
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“I deny nothing, but doubt everything.” ~ Lord Byron
- “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
- “Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.” ~ Lord Byron
- “One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Heaven gives its favorites-early death.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.” ~ Lord Byron
- “And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!” ~ Lord Byron
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“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.” ~ Lord Byron
- “I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure’s rise As from the stroke of the enchanter’s wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O’er the far times when many a subject land Look’d to the winged Lion’s marble pines, Where Venice sate in the state, throned on her hundred isles.” ~ Lord Byron
- “O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measured for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.” ~ Lord Byron
- “I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.” ~ Lord Byron
