Life Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

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“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed !”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

No more let life divide what death can join together.

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

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“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb

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

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O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from…

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

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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

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Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

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I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must…

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

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When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life…

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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings…

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Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dread endurance, from the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,…

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Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon…

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The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all…

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True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that…

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“Whatever may be his [man's] true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution (change…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born,…

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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…

— 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

The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its…

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You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Whether that lady's gentle mind, No longer with the form combined Which scattered love, as stars do light, Found sadness where it…

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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - He hath awakened from the dream of life”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley