708 Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless