110+ Lord Byron Quotes On Death, Beauty And Happiness

Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic Movement of the 19th century. He is best known for his narrative poem, Don Juan, and his lyric poem, She Walks in Beauty. He was also a notable playwright and a political figure who was renowned for his charisma and flamboyant lifestyle. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Lord Byron on death, love, beauty.

Top 10 Lord Byron Quotes

1. Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
2. Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
3. When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.
4. The heart will break, but broken live on.
5. Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
6. There is no instinct like that of the heart.
7. Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
8. 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.
9. And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
10. Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Lord Byron Image Quotes

The heart will break, but broken live on. — Lord Byron

There is no instinct like that of the heart. — Lord Byron

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. — Lord Byron

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

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. — Lord Byron

Absence - that common cure of love. — Lord Byron

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. — Lord Byron

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. — Lord Byron

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. — Lord Byron

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. — Lord Byron

Lord Byron Short Quotes

• It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
• For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
• Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
• Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
• I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
• Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
• I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.
• Adversity is the first path to truth.
• Armenian is the language to speak with God.

Lord Byron Quotes About Death

Heaven gives its favourites-early death. — Lord Byron

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage. — Lord Byron

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — Lord Byron

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death. — Lord Byron

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — Lord Byron

I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived! — Lord Byron

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. — Lord Byron

All tragedies are finished by a death,All comedies are ended by a marriage;The future states of both are left to faith,For authors fear description might disparageThe worlds to come of both. . . . — Lord Byron

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! — Lord Byron

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay. — Lord Byron

Lord Byron Quotes About Love

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

Absence - that common cure of love. — 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

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

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me! — Lord Byron

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money. — Lord Byron

I love not man the less, but Nature more. — Lord Byron

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week. — Lord Byron

Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land! — Lord Byron

Friendship is Love without his wings! — Lord Byron

Lord Byron Quotes About Beauty

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar! — Lord Byron

Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth. — Lord Byron

My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness! — Lord Byron

But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation. — Lord Byron

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year. — Lord Byron

Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull — Lord Byron

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man, and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world. — Lord Byron

Fills The air around with beauty. — Lord Byron

So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. — Lord Byron

Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty. — Lord Byron

Lord Byron Quotes About Life

The great art of life is 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

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. — Lord Byron

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

There is music in all things, if men had ears. — Lord Byron

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! — Lord Byron

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

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? — Lord Byron

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 — Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron Quotes About Happiness

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99 — Lord Byron

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. — Lord Byron

Happiness was born a twin. — Lord Byron

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest. — Lord Byron

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. — Lord Byron

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited. — Lord Byron

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. — Lord Byron

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. — Lord Byron

Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy? — Lord Byron

Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired? — Lord Byron

Lord Byron Quotes About Nature

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

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best. — Lord Byron

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men. — Lord Byron

There is pleasure in the pathless woods. — Lord Byron

A quiet conscience makes one so serene. — Lord Byron

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. — Lord Byron

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair? — Lord Byron

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

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

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's! — Lord Byron

Lord Byron Quotes About World

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. — Lord Byron

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. — 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

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

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. — Lord Byron

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. — Lord Byron

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. — Lord Byron

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. — Lord Byron

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it. — Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron Quotes About Mind

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. — Lord Byron

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

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. — Lord Byron

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. — 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

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed. — Lord Byron

What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! — Lord Byron

The power of thought, the magic of the mind. — Lord Byron

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

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron

Lord Byron Quotes About Made

And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled. — Lord Byron

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. — Lord Byron

Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning. — Lord Byron

A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote. — Lord Byron

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? — Lord Byron

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made. — Lord Byron

Critics are already made. — Lord Byron

The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. — Lord Byron

I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other. — Lord Byron

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves. — Lord Byron

Lord Byron Famous Quotes And Sayings

The heart will break, but broken live on. — Lord Byron

There is no instinct like that of the heart. — Lord Byron

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. — Lord Byron

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

Absence - that common cure of love. — Lord Byron

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. — Lord Byron

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. — Lord Byron

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war. — Lord Byron

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. — Lord Byron

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. — Lord Byron

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. — Lord Byron

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. — Lord Byron

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. — Lord Byron

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

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. — Lord Byron

Eternity forbids thee to forget. — Lord Byron

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog. — Lord Byron

A drop of ink may make a million think. — Lord Byron

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. — Lord Byron

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. — Lord Byron

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. — Lord Byron

The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not. — Lord Byron

Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste. — Lord Byron

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. — Lord Byron

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it. — Lord Byron

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports. — Lord Byron

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! — Lord Byron

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. — Lord Byron

Hatred is the madness of the heart. — Lord Byron

The dew of compassion is a tear. — Lord Byron

Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order. — Lord Byron

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? — Lord Byron

A pretty woman is a welcome guest. — Lord Byron

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. — Lord Byron

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant. — Lord Byron

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? — Lord Byron

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. — Lord Byron

In solitude, where we are least alone. — Lord Byron

Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole? — Lord Byron

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. — Lord Byron

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace! — Lord Byron

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. — Lord Byron

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

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. — Lord Byron

The busy have no time for tears. — Lord Byron

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue. — Lord Byron

I awoke one morning and found myself famous. — Lord Byron

Fame is the thirst of youth. — Lord Byron

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. — Lord Byron

Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well. — Lord Byron

Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky. — Lord Byron

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. — Lord Byron

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. — Lord Byron

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. — Lord Byron

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. — Lord Byron

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were. — Lord Byron

Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood. — Lord Byron

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. — Lord Byron

This is the age of oddities let loose. — Lord Byron

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy. — Lord Byron

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron

We of the craft are all crazy. — Lord Byron

Think not I am what I appear. — Lord Byron

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. — Lord Byron

Life Lessons by Lord Byron

1. Lord Byron taught us that life is precious and should be lived to the fullest, no matter how short it may be. He encouraged us to embrace our passions and to never be afraid to take risks.
2. He also showed us that it is important to be kind and generous to those around us, and to never forget the power of love.
3. Finally, Lord Byron taught us that it is essential to stay true to ourselves and to never be ashamed of our unique perspectives and ideas.