Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes about Happiness

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If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love, Family, Happiness

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happiness, Song, Laughter

"To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happiness, Race, Roots

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1822). “Queen Mab”, p.112