Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Pain And Pleasure

Quotes about: Pain And Pleasure

• A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Pain, Men, Imagine

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

• The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Pain, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Pain, Tragedy, Shadow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Large Edition”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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