Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Dream Quotes , Love Is Quotes

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Self Improvement Quotes

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Adequate Quotes

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Reason Quotes

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sight Quotes , Vegetarian Diet Quotes

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Nature Quotes , Punishment Quotes

Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Honor Quotes

As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

I love tranquil solitude.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Solitude Quotes

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Moving Quotes , Thinking Quotes

A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Husband Quotes , Law Quotes

The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Dog Quotes

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Vegetarianism Quotes

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Kings Quotes , Power Quotes

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Enemy Quotes

I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Children Quotes , Rain Quotes

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Music Quotes , Memories Quotes