Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes about Passion

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Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Passion, Mind, Religion

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.732, Pearson Education

Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spring, War, Passion

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.361

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Passion, Mind, Atheism

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.26

The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dream, Passion, Ministers

1821 Adonais, stanza 9.

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Atheist, Passion, Eye

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1810, Delphi Classics