Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Suffering

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  • Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.831, Delphi Classics
  • To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

    "The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley".
  • Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.207, Wordsworth Editions
  • For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.205
  • My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.262
  • I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

    1820 Prometheus Unbound, act 1, l.303-5.
  • Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

    'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 544
  • To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From it's own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, not falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous,beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory

    'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 570
  • Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.219
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