Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

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At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

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Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

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The soul's joy lies in doing.

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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.

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I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.

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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

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It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

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O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

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Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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No more let life divide what death can join together.

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The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!

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I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

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We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

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