Lord Byron Quotes on Sadness (11 Quotes)


    Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

    For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

    Nor be, what man should ever be, The friend of Beauty in distress.

    Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s

    For, though thy long dark lashes low depending,
    The soul of melancholy Gentleness
    Gleams like a Seraph from the sky descending,
    Above all pain, yet pitying all distress;
    At once such majesty with sweetness blending,
    I worship more, but cannot love thee less.


    A tigress robb'd of young, a lioness, Or any interesting beast of prey, Are similes at hand for the distress Of ladies who cannot have their own way

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

    I see before me the Gladiator lie He leans upon his hand - his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony.


    Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

    I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.


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