Inspirational Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

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Deep truth is imageless.

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I love tranquil solitude.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves, And come and be…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many…

— 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…

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Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

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And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

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In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

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Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

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Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

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A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

— Percy Bysshe Shelley