Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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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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Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

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Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

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Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.

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The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

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Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

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

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

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Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

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No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.

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In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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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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How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

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We know not what we do When we speak words.

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