“I am not now that which I have been.”

— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818), Canto IV, stanza 185

About Lord Byron

1788 – 1824

English Romantic poet, author of 'Don Juan' and 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'.

“When we think we lead, we are most led.”

“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!”

“The busy have no time for tears.”

“Still ending, and beginning still.”

“Indeed, life would be unliveable, even if I did not notice the change.”

“Progress is / The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”

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“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent.”