Lord Byron

Poet English 1788 – 1824

English Romantic poet known for Don Juan and passionate verses.

378 quotes

"When passion's trance is o'er, if tenderness survive"
Love
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods"
Solitude
"What is the end of fame"
Wisdom
"When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her"
Love
"All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage"
Philosophy
"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist"
Happiness
"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, tis that I may not weep"
Humor
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink falls like dew upon a thought"
Literature
"I have imbibed such a love for the marvellous, from the earliest days of my childhood"
Imagination
"There is a strength of friendship"
Friendship
"The great object of life is sensation, not suffering"
Wisdom
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture on the lonely shore"
Freedom
"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below"
Power
"The world is made up of very small adjustments and readjustments"
Change
"So much depends upon a grateful heart"
Gratitude
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods"
Peace
"What man is he that hates to see himself the image of his soul"
Truth
"I am ashes where once I was fire"
Time
"Existence will be rendered to them more sweet"
Hope
"The great object of life is sensation, to feel ourselves alive"
Life
"Kindness in women not their learned sex, should make us in the gentler passions blessed"
Kindness
"The great object of life is sensation, though in a painful excess"
Perseverance
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, on the lonely shore"
Adventure
"What is fame but a sluggish thing that with the slothful grows"
Motivation
"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist in ourselves"
Life
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, a rapture on the lonely shore"
Nature
"I have the faculty of adapting myself to circumstances"
Change
"There is a strength in the union of love"
Relationships
"The great object of life is sensation, in its broadest sense"
Happiness
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture"