Lord Byron Quotes about Pain

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Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

Lord Byron

Pain, Health, Men

The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.

Lord Byron

Pain, Accomplishment, Battle

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

Hope, Truth, Pain

Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 4 (1975)

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

Lord Byron

Love, Pain, Writing

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

Lord Byron

Pain, Forever, Tears

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Lord Byron

Pain, Ideas, Giving

Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.48, Gerald Duckworth & Co

With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod, A thousand horses - the wild - the free - Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.

Lord Byron

Horse, Pain, Sea

Lord Byron, “Mazeppa”

Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain

Lord Byron

Pain, Fate, Men

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

Lord Byron

Pain, Painful, Payment

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.243, Sheba Blake Publishing

I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

Lord Byron

Pain, Hate, Add

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

Lord Byron

Pain, Teaching, Mind