Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am an atheist, a republican, and a lover of mankind.

I love all waste and solitary places; where we taste the pleasure of believing what we see is boundless, as we feel our affections.

My heart is a hotbed of strange thoughts.

I love to see a tree, which has been growing a hundred years, cut down and split into planks.

I have no respect for the world, nor for what it thinks of me.

I always go to bed with a book in my hand.

I would rather be damned with Plato and Lord Bacon, than go to heaven with Paley and Malthus.

I am a creature of impulse, and I cannot resist the temptation of a new idea.

My head is too full of poetry.

I am a spirit, yet I can feel.

I am a lover of Mankind, and a believer in the divinity of man.

I have been an Atheist, and I am an Atheist still.

My dearest friend, there is no God.

I am a moral, a religious, and a political bigot. I am for the most rigorous morality, the most fervent religion, and the most uncompromising politics.

The devil is a gentleman, and you must treat him as such.

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

I am the devil's own—his born servant.

The sight of a rat in a hole is pleasant compared with that of a lord in his carriage.

I always go on until I am stopped, and I never am stopped.

Man is a carnivorous production, and must have meals, at least once a day.