Quotes By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

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

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

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

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.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

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

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.