Lord Byron - Life Quotes

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Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
He would have written sonnets all his life?

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 Lord of the unerring bow,
The God of life, and poesy, and light.

Lord Byron

That which I am, I am; I did not seek
For life, nor did I make myself.

Lord Byron

I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse — borne away with every breath!
Misplaced upon the throne — misplaced in life.
I know not what I could have been, but feel
I am not what I should be — let it end.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication.

Lord Byron

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), – sleep, eating, and swilling – buttoning and unbuttoning – how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron