Hope Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“To hope until hope creates from its very own wreck the thing it contemplates.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“to hope til Hope creates from its own wreak the thing it contemplates;”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“And others came... Desires and Adorations, Winged Persuasions and veil'd Destinies, Splendours, and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations Of hopes and fears, and…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“And in a mad trance Strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings We decay Like corpses in a charnel Fear & Grief…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Love, hope, and self-esteem, like clouds depart And come, for some uncertain moments lent. Man were immortal and omnipotent, Didst thou, unknown…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley