Paradise Lost Quotes

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“For solitude somtimes is best societie.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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