Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet English 1792 – 1822

English Romantic poet known for Ozymandias and Prometheus Unbound.

377 quotes

"Good-night! good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow."
Relationships
"I am the eye with which the Universe beholds itself and knows itself divine."
Philosophy
"What is freedom?"
Freedom
"There is no god, but God is the name of my desire."
Faith
"We are the masters of our fate."
Leadership
"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
Hope
"Necessity may make strange bedfellows."
Friendship
"The path of true obedience is the path of true freedom."
Freedom
"The love which follows beauty is the love of virtue."
Love
"Intellectual beauty is the only true beauty."
Beauty
"The best and happiest people are those who think most earnestly and searchingly."
Happiness
"Good-bye to the life I knew."
Change
"My spirit like a charmed bark doth swim upon the liquid light of thy loved eyes."
Love
"How wonderful is Death! Death and his brother Sleep!"
Death
"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."
Life
"Peace to the world in which I soon shall be."
Peace
"The spirit of the hour is strong upon thee."
Motivation
"Strength is wisdom, virtue is happiness."
Strength
"No man has a right to do harm when he can do good."
Kindness
"A man to be greatly good must imagine intensely and comprehensively."
Imagination
"I am most disloyal to my most sublime duty."
Perseverance
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."
Life
"O gentle Orpheus! I am thine."
Music
"The privilege of existing is to be grateful."
Gratitude
"How art thou fallen, thou Morning Star!"
Philosophy
"I am as a leaf that falls and settles on the earth."
Patience
"Wisdom is not found in books alone."
Wisdom
"The deep truth is imageless."
Truth
"The mind creates a world of its own."
Imagination
"To die and to be truly happy, were the same thing."
Happiness