708 Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.