Lord Byron Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

  Lord Byron

  School, Men, Two

• The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Time, Stars

• This is the age of oddities let loose.

  Lord Byron

  Oddities, Age

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.40, Xist Publishing

• Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Kissing, Yellow

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.38, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.502, Xist Publishing

• ...And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
  For when they happen at a riper age,
  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
  And wonder Providence is not more sage.
  Adversity is the first path to truth:
  He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,
  Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
  Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, War, Adversity

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

• Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

  Lord Byron

  Hands, Play, Age

• This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Soul, Age

• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Birthday, Time

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Years, Wings

  George Gordon Byron, “When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay”

• This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

  Lord Byron

  Birthday, Soul, Age

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.170, Routledge

• The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Disappointment, Discovery

• Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

  Lord Byron

  Age, Decay, Divinity

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.198

• Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

  Lord Byron

  Age, Towers, Marathon

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.52, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

  Lord Byron

  Sunset, Clouds, Space

• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

  Lord Byron

  Time, Age, Twenties

• Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

  Lord Byron

  Dark, Egypt, Pyramids

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.724, Delphi Classics

• When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past -
  For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -
  The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
  Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Past, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.52, Delphi Classics

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