Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

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

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.