Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Creating, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1860). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.119

• Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of eternity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

• The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Song, Heaven

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

• Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge... Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again - I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Crush, Revenge, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1964). “Shelley in England”

• But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  War, Past, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

• Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Fate, Past, Echoes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.287

• 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.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Change, Science

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

• Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Brain, Spirit

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

• Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Hands, Endurance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.152

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