4 Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes on Afterlife

Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes on afterlife

134. Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

149. Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - He hath awakened from the dream of life.

155. The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.

187. It appears that we moulder to a heap of senseless dust; to a few worms, that arise and perish, like ourselves. Jesus Christ asserts that these appearances are fallacious, and that a gloomy and cold imagination alone suggests the conception that thought can cease to be. Another and a more extensive state of being, rather than the complete extinction of being will follow from that mysterious change which we call Death. There shall be no misery, no pain, no fear. The empire of evil spirits extends not beyond the boundaries of the grave. The unobscured irradiations from the fountain-fire of all goodness shall reveal all that is mysterious and unintelligible, until the mutual communications of knowledge and of happiness throughout all thinking natures, constitute a harmony of good that ever varies and never ends.