43 quotes by Lord Byron

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

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

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“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.” — Lord Byron

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“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.” — Lord Byron

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“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.” — Lord Byron

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

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“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.” — Lord Byron

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

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

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

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“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.” — Lord Byron

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“Friendship is Love without his wings!” — Lord Byron

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

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“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

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

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“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

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“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.” — Lord Byron

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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” — Lord Byron

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