Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Paradise Quotes

The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Religious Quotes , War Quotes

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Community Quotes , Ruins Quotes

Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Wise Quotes , Voice Quotes

I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet!

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Pain Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

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!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Hate Quotes , Past 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

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

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Heaven Quotes

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Wise Quotes

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Men Quotes , Command Not 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

Necessity, thou mother of the world!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Mother Quotes

O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

5 years ago

Message Copied

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