Percy Bysshe Shelley Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes, Percy Bysshe Shelley sayings, and Percy Bysshe Shelley proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Then black despair, / The shadows of a starless night, was thrown / Over the world in which I moved alone. Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man to be greatly good must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no real wealth but the labor of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn richer; not one comfort would be added to the human race. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Such hope, as is the sick despair of good, / Such fear, as is the certainty of ill, / Such doubt, as is pale Expectation’s food / Turned while she tastes to poison, when the will / Is powerless, and the spirit... Percy Bysshe Shelley
Teach me half the gladness / That thy brain must know, / Such harmonious madness / From my lips would flow / The world should listen then—as I am listening now. Percy Bysshe Shelley
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Away, away, from men and towns, / To the wildwood and the downs, — / To the silent wilderness, / Where the soul need not repress its music.” Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The great instrument of moral good is imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neighs with obedience. jealousy, nor fear. Percy Bysshe Shelley