Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes From Percy Bysshe Shelley Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Percy Bysshe Shelley timeinspirationallife Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God. Percy Bysshe Shelley religioussleepchildren January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers. Percy Bysshe Shelley griefflowertime Joy, once lost, is pain Percy Bysshe Shelley chaospainjoy When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. Percy Bysshe Shelley lightcloudslying 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 generositymoneybusiness We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability! Percy Bysshe Shelley dreamsleepmen First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. Percy Bysshe Shelley debtdustfirsts I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear. Percy Bysshe Shelley lifelyingchildren O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest. Percy Bysshe Shelley airspringmemories The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors. Percy Bysshe Shelley jealouskeystruth Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley punishmentfaultsnature One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody. Percy Bysshe Shelley hungrywoodsdark Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found. Percy Bysshe Shelley sagecalmmeditation Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. Percy Bysshe Shelley laurelsfasteraction The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley instrumentsmoralimagination And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy Bysshe Shelley despairkingsnames There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley wealthrealmen I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. Percy Bysshe Shelley frostformsnow If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? Percy Bysshe Shelley prayerwisedoubt
