Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , World Quotes , Lasts Quotes

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Men Quotes , Religion Quotes

The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sunset Quotes , Moon Quotes

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Wall Quotes , Lying Quotes

The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Stars Quotes , Blue Quotes

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Gold Quotes , Sake Quotes

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Winter Quotes

The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Time Quotes , Rolling Quotes

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Dream Quotes , Peace Quotes

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Men Quotes , England Quotes

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Paradise Quotes

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Lying Quotes , Flower Quotes

Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Strong Quotes , Simple Quotes

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Kissing Quotes , Romantic Love Quotes

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Loss Quotes , Wrath Quotes

And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves, And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Life Quotes , Guests Quotes

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Life Quotes , Rights Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Hope Quotes , Despair Quotes

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Positive Quotes , Fear Quotes