Quotes & Sayings About Byron

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy? — W. Somerset Maugham

Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it. — Byron Katie

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. — George Gordon Byron

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous. — Byron Katie

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. — Lord Byron

I loved my country, and I hated him. — Lord Byron

Life's too short for chess. — Henry James Byron

There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled. — Byron Katie

To say he had doubts about this excursion, which Wyoming State University hadn't even authorized, would easily qualify for the understatement of the year. But as he pondered his reason for doing this, Ellington bit his lip, swallowed a bolus of raw fear in his throat and continued to descend, allowing the nylon rope to slip through the carabiner underneath his posterior. — Byron Tucker

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time. — Byron Katie

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much. — Byron Dorgan

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. — George Gordon Byron

And he who lieth there was childless. I have dried the fountain of gentle race..
-Cain — George Gordon Byron

And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter. — Lord Byron

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. — Brenda Ueland

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair) — George Gordon Byron

Gratitude is what we are without a story. — Byron Katie

But suppose it past, - suppose one of these men, as I have seen them meagre with famine, sullen with despair, careless of a life which your lordships are perhaps about to value at something less than the price of a stocking-frame ; suppose this man surrounded by those children for whom he is unable to procure bread at the hazard of his existence, about to be torn for ever from a family which he lately supported in peaceful industry, and which it is not his fault than he can no longer so support; suppose this man - and there are ten thousand such from whom you may select your victims, - dragged into court to be tried for this new offence, by this new law, - still there are two things wanting to convict and condemn him, and these are, in my opinion, twelve butchers for a jury, and a Jefferies for a judge! — George Gordon Byron

That low vice, curiosity! — Lord Byron

And mine's a bubble not blown up for praise, But just to play with, as an infant plays. — George Gordon Byron

Discomfort is the call to set yourself free. — Byron Katie

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. — Lord Byron

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? — Lord Byron

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else? — Byron Katie

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore. — Lord Byron

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? — Lord Byron

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron

Life's to short for chess. — Henry James Byron

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. — Lord Byron

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it. — Byron Dorgan

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

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. — Lord Byron

When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world.
The world is exactly as it should be. — Byron Katie

Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don't have any other business. — Byron Katie

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does. — Byron Katie

Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime,
The image of Eternity,
the throne
Of the Invisible! even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. — George Gordon Byron

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work. — Byron Katie

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. — George Gordon Byron

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different! — Alan Moore

Byron clapped Walter on the back. 'Good work,' he said.
Walter shook his head. 'You're the one who clocked her with the Stephen King hardcover. That took some of the wind out of her.'
'Thank heavens he's a wordy man,' said Byron. — Michael Thomas Ford

For pleasures past I do not grieve, Nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear. — George Gordon Byron

There is only one lifemate. She obviously belongs with Jacques."
"We do not know that. If he were not your brother ... " Byron began.
A low snarl stopped him. "I see no reason for you to question my judgment in this matter, Byron. I have had more than one brother, and I have never let fraternity stand in the way of what is just or right."
"It was Gregori who hunted your other brother," Byron pointed out.
Mikhail turned his head slowly, black eyes catching the whip of lightning cracking across the sky. "At my order. — Christine Feehan

Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear,
It lives all passionless and pure:
An age shall fleet like earthly year;
Its years in moments shall endure.
Away, away, without a wing,
O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly;
A nameless and eternal thing,
Forgetting what it was to die. — George Gordon Byron

A person with a melancholy temperament had been fated with both an awful burden and what Byron called "a fearful gift." The burden was a sadness and despair that could tip into a state of disease. But the gift was a capacity for depth, wisdom - even genius. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on. — George Gordon Byron

It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need. — Byron Katie

If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought. — Byron Katie

I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one ... — Susanna Clarke

In regard to duties, if we all agreed that every one has a duty not to hasten death, then we could properly conclude it is wrong to hasten death regardless of the consequences. And we could properly conclude that it is wrong to assist such a death. But we do not all agree. Some of us believe our duty is to relieve human suffering or to allow freedom of human choice and that aid in dying is consistent with that duty. — Byron Chell

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year. — Lord Byron

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. — Byron Katie

I Live Not in Myself

I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture: I can see
Nothing to loathe in nature, save to be
A link reluctant in a fleshy chain,
Classed among creatures, when the soul can flee,
And with the sky, the peak, the heaving plain
Of ocean, or the stars, mingle, and not in vain. — George Gordon Byron

What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind — Byron Katie

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere. — Lord Byron

Armenian is the language to speak with God. — Lord Byron

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge. — Lord Byron

The thought of covering her in anything is Byronically diverting. — David Mitchell

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not. — Byron Katie

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do. — Lord Byron

A dishonest yes is a no to yourself. — Byron Katie

It is you who are unpoetical," replied the poet Syme. "If what you say of clerks is true, they can only be as prosaic as your poetry. The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it. We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird. Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station? Chaos is dull; because in chaos the train might indeed go anywhere, to Baker Street or to Bagdad. But man is a magician, and his whole magic is in this, that he does say Victoria, and lo! it is Victoria. No, take your books of mere poetry and prose; let me read a time table, with tears of pride. Take your Byron, who commemorates the defeats of man; give me Bradshaw, who commemorates his victories. Give me Bradshaw, I say! — G.K. Chesterton

Loathed he in his native land to dwell, Which seemed to him more lone than eremite's sad cell. — George Gordon Byron

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now. — Byron Katie

Isn't it marvelous to discover that you're the one you've been waiting for? That you are your own freedom? — Byron Katie

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone. — George Gordon Byron

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon. — Lord Byron

I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us. — Byron Katie

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night! — Lord Byron

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. — Lord Byron

THE ANGLER "I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture." Byron. — Charles Barker Bradford

Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence. — Lord Byron

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. — Lord Byron

The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder. — Lord Byron

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it. — Byron Katie

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. — Lord Byron

Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future. — Byron Katie

Ultimately, I am all I can know. — Byron Katie

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger. — Lord Byron

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity. — Byron Dorgan

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers. — Byron Nelson

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. — Byron White

Here's how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That's what he hears. No one has ever heard you. — Byron Katie

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space. — George Gordon Byron

I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures. — Edgar Allan Poe

Like most guys, I had bought into the stereotype that all feminists were white, lesbian, unattractive male bashers who hated all men. But after reading the work of these black feminists, I realized that this was far from the truth. After digging into their work, I came to really respect the intelligence, courage and honesty of these women.
Feminists did not hate men. In fact, they loved men. But just as my father had silenced my mother during their arguments to avoid hearing her gripes, men silenced feminists by belittling them in order to dodge hearing the truth about who we are. — Byron Hurt

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story. — Byron Katie

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. — Lord Byron

We fear only what we haven't understood. — Byron Katie

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet. — Byron Katie

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know. — Byron Katie

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something. — Byron Katie

Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls. — Lord Byron

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. — George Gordon Byron

War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!" — Lord Byron

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue. — Lord Byron

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war. — Lord Byron

The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains. — John Constable

If you like poetry let it be first-rate; Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith, Pope (if you will, though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Camp[b]ell, Wordsworth, and Southey. Now don't
be startled at the names of Shakespeare and Byron. Both these were great men, and their works are like themselves. You will know how to choose the good and avoid the evil; the finest
passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting, you will never wish to read them over twice. — Charlotte Bronte

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — George Gordon Byron