Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Fear not for the future weep not for the past.

That orbed maiden with white fire laden Whom mortals call the moon.

Jealousy's eyes are green.

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.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not:Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought.Yet if we could scornHate, and pride, and fear;If we were things bornNot to shed a tear,I know not how thy joy we everShould come near.

Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

And in a mad tranceStrike with our spirit's knifeInvulnerable nothingsWe decayLike corpses in a charnelFear & GriefConvulse is & consume usDay by dayAnd cold hopes swarmLike worms withinOur living clay