John Milton Quotes

“What in me is dark illumine.”

“Knowledge forbidd’n?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should thir Lord
Envie them that? can it be sin to know,
Can it be death?”

“How can I live without thee, how forgoe
Thy sweet Converse and Love so dearly joyn’d?”

“A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time.”

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my Clay
To mould me Man, did I sollicite thee
From darkness to promote me.”

“I formd them free, and free they must remain.”

“The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.”

“For solitude somtimes is best societie.”

“Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.”

“This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?”

“At length from us may find, who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.”

“Me miserable! which way shall I flie
Infinite wrauth, and infinite despaire?
Which way I flie is Hell; my self am Hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep
Still threatning to devour me opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav’n.”

“All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.”

“Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n.”

“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav’nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend.”

“Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.”

“This horror will grow milde, this darkness light.”

“Invincible: abasht the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Vertue in her shape how lovly, saw, and pin’d
His loss.”

“For never can true reconcilement grow
Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc’d so deep.”