Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
