Lord Byron Mind Quotations

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.

Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim

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.

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

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, / And fevers into false creation.

To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind: / All are not fit with them to stir and toil, / Nor is it discontent to keep the mind / Deep in its fountain.

What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

A mind at peace with all below, / A heart whose love is innocent!