Top 30 George Gordon Byron Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— George Gordon Byron

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2. “I love not man the less, but nature more.”

— George Gordon Byron

3. “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...”

— George Gordon Byron

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

— George Gordon Byron

5. “But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”

— George Gordon Byron

6. “Friendship is love without wings.”

— George Gordon Byron

7. “There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”

— George Gordon Byron

8. “In secret we met In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.”

— George Gordon Byron

9. “I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.”

— George Gordon Byron

10. “The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”

— George Gordon Byron

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

— George Gordon Byron

12. “All who joy would win Must share it – Happiness was born a twin.”

— George Gordon Byron

13. “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.”

— George Gordon Byron

14. “If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

— George Gordon Byron

15. “In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

— George Gordon Byron

16. “Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”

— George Gordon Byron

17. “There’s music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing of a rill; There’s music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.”

— George Gordon Byron

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

— George Gordon Byron

19. “The thorns which I have reap’d are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.”

— George Gordon Byron

20. “I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”

— George Gordon Byron

21. “I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”

— George Gordon Byron

22. “Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.”

— George Gordon Byron

23. “They never fail who die in a great cause.”

— George Gordon Byron

24. “Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!”

— George Gordon Byron

25. “Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”

— George Gordon Byron

26. “Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.”

— George Gordon Byron

27. “To have joy, one must share it.”

— George Gordon Byron

28. “You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”

— George Gordon Byron

29. “There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

— George Gordon Byron

30. “What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?”

— George Gordon Byron

31. “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!”

— George Gordon Byron

32. “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?”

— George Gordon Byron