Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

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If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

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A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

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The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.

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Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.

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The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.

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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

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He hath awakened from the dream of life.

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In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

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I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

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In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

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Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.

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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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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?

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Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

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What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.

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O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From it's own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, not falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous,beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory

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