List of Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 437 inspiring quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

About Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • Born: August 4, 1792
  • Died: July 8, 1822
  • Occupation: Poet
    • Not the swart pariah in some indian grove, lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate as that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: he bears a load which nothing can remove, a killing, withering weight.
    Love Brother Hate
    What! alive, and so bold, o earth?
    Alive Earth
    Less oft peace in shelley's mind, than calm in waters seen.
    Water Mind Calm
    You would not easily guess all the modes of distress which torture the tenants of earth; and the various evils, which like so many devils, attend the poor souls from their birth.
    Evil Soul Earth
    There is no sport in hate where all the rage is on one side.
    Sports Hate Sides
    The intense atom glows a moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
    Atoms Cold Moments
    You are now in london, that great sea, whose ebb and flow at once is deaf and loud, and on the shore vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. yet in its depth what treasures!
    Sea Ebb And Flow Depth
    Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams the blue mediterranean, where he lay, lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams beside a pumice isle in baiæ's bay, and saw in sleep old palaces and towers quivering within the wave's intenser day, all overgrown with azure moss and flowers so sweet, the sense faints picturing them.
    Summer Dream Sweet
    Lightning my pilot sits; in a cavern under is fettered the thunder, it struggles and howls at fits; over earth and ocean, with gentle motion, this pilot is guiding me, lured by the love of the genii that move in the depths of the purple sea; over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, over the lakes and the plains, wherever he dream, under mountain or stream the spirit he loves remains; and i all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, whilst he is dissolving in rains.
    Dream Rain Ocean
    The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. it strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. i confess that i am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.
    Life Views Facts
    I know the past and thence i will essay to glean a warning for the future, so that man may profit by his errors, and derive experience from his folly; for, when the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
    Past Men Errors
    It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
    Compassion Vegetarianism Should Have
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