Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

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But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

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When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

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My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands!

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Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

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O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?

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Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge... Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again - I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

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Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

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Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!

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The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

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So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

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

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