Lord Byron Quotes About Torture

Quotes about: Torture

• A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

  Lord Byron

  Revenge, Punishment, Atheism

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

• No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

  Lord Byron

  Inward, Ears, Tongue

  George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour [Unquenched, Unquenchable]”

• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Pain, Writing

• There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

  Lord Byron

  Time, Feelings, Torture

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.269, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Climbing, Cities, Feelings

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 72

• And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Joy, Tears

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

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