shelley Quotes

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.”

“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.”

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

“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”

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