Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again -- I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me,

Summary

This quote expresses a strong and visceral disdain towards Christianity. The speaker fervently declares their refusal to forgive the religion, even going so far as to invoke eternal damnation upon themselves if they were to break this oath. They express a desire to be the Antichrist, embodying a desire to utterly eliminate Christianity and banish it to its supposed place of origin, Hell. The speaker sees their poetic work as a means to satisfy their boundless animosity towards the religion.

Topics

Christianity

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on wit

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

Life Funny Circumstances

Measure three times before you cut once.

Measure three times before you cut once.

Facts

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because yo

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ig

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai Stevenson, "Time", retort

Forgiveness

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistake

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Douglas William Jerrold

Kindness

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your he

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Purpose

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebr

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Francoise Sagan

Death

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

Francesca Annis

Family

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests o

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Deception/lying

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Time

You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yoursel

You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.

Minorities

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Intelligence