Percy Bysshe Shelley 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.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

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Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

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A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

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Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

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

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Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

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Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

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But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

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It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

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Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

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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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Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

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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.

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Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

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

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

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