708 Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

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

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.