Lord Byron Quotes

Believe: — if ’tis improbable, you must;
And if it is impossible, you shall:
’Tis always best to take things upon trust.

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

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

But who, alas! can love, and then be wise?

And yet methinks the older that one grows
Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter
Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

Expect not life from pain nor danger free,
Nor deem the doom of man reversed for thee.

Zda się być żywą -gdyby nie to oko,
Gdzie już nie świeci ni łza, ni namiętność,
Gdzie mieszka zimna, wieczna obojętność.

Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace!

Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

Gaze
Upon the shades of those distinguished men,
Who were or are the puppet-shows of praise,
The praise of persecution. Gaze again
On the most favoured; and amidst the blaze
Of sunset halos o’er the laurel-browed,
What can ye recognize? — A gilded cloud.

And both were young, and one was beautiful.

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.

The starry fable of the milky way
Has not the story's purity; it is
A constellation of a sweeter ray,
And sacred Nature triumphs more in this
Reverse of her decree, that in the abyss
Where sparkle distant worlds: — Oh, holiest nurse!
No drop of that clear stream its way shall miss
To thy sire's heart, replenishing its source
With life, as our freed souls rejoin the universe.

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?