Mind Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley