shelley Quotes
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“Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“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.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“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.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.”
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“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.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“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.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley