Percy Bysshe Shelley
22 quotations
How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
The soul's joy lies in doing.
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?