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Lord Byron Quotes about Life

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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Life, Motivational, Positive

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

Love, Inspirational, Life

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.

Love, Life, Dying

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

Life, Wisdom, Tree

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Inspirational, Life, Fall

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Inspirational, Life, Religion

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Life, Friendship, Dog

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Love, Life, Passion

Don Juan canto 3, st. 3 (1821)

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Love, Funny, Life

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

Life, Stars, Night

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 15, st. 99

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Life, Birthday, Time

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Life, Cups, Sparkle

"Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron" (Illustrated),

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

Life, Friendship, Balls

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Life, Fire, Years

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 8

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Love, Life, Angel

George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour”

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Life, Passion, Earthquakes

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

Life, Success, Dance

George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

Life, Philosophy, Philosophical

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.502, Xist Publishing

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

Life, Years, Waiting

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

Life, Wall, Writing

On 'Don Juan' in a letter to Douglas Kinnaird, October 26 1819: L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 6 (1978)

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

Life, Years, Ideas

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Life, Vices, Literature

"Lord Byron", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

Born: January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824
Occupation: Baron Byron

Quotes: 589

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