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Percy Bysshe Shelley on Easter

1792–1822 England

← All quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

7 quotes

Worse than despair,
Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

The Cenci (1819)

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Adonais (1821)

To hope till hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth
Are children of one mother, even Love.

Of such affection and unbroken faith
As temper life's worst bitterness.

The Cenci (1819)

Through the sunset of hope,
Like the shapes of a dream,
What paradise islands of glory gleam!

Man who man would be
Must rule the empire of himself.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.