Byronic Hero Quotes

“No, I'm not Byron, it's my role
To be an undiscovered wonder,
Like him, a persecuted wand'rer,
But furnished with a Russian soul.
I started sooner, sooner ending,
My mind will never reach so high;
Within my soul, beyond the mending,
My shattered aspirations lie:
Dark ocean answer me, can any
Plumb all your depth with skillful trawl?
Who will explain me to the many?
I... perhaps God? No one at all?”
― Mikhail Lermontov

“Cynical, self-deprecating, affected, indiscriminate, patronizing, immature, as sloppy intellectually as he was with his desk, fickle, vain, virile, brooding, pedantic, philandering...in short, Byronic, Byronic, Byronic, almost to the point of parody.”
― Laura Elizabeth Woollett, The Wood of Suicides

“Only that if ever he meets you he will be quite green with jealousy, for you are precisely what he thinks he would like to be – even though you don’t study the picturesque in your attire.’

He looked thunderstruck for a moment, and ejaculated: ‘A Byronic hero – ! Oh, my God! Why, you abominable –”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“One lives only in and for the moment, in order to achieve "the brief and vivid union of a tempestuous heart united to the tempest".(Lermontov)”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel