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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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

John Milton

Awakening, Action, Choice, Consequences, Moral Exhortation

2. “For evil news rides post, while good news baits.”

John Milton

News, Good And Evil, Communication, Human Nature, Metaphor

3. “Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.”

John Milton

Melancholy, Madness, Mental State, Alliteration, Human Condition

4. “Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss.”

John Milton

Goodness, Virtue, Evil, Beauty, Moral Contrast

5. “All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.”

John Milton

Hope, Fear, Grace, Despair, Damnation

6. “Fear of change perplexes monarchs.”

John Milton

Change, Power, Leadership, Fear, Politics

7. “With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.”

John Milton

Chaos, Destruction, Disorder, Accumulation, Cosmic Turmoil

8. “Solitude is sometimes best society.”

John Milton

Solitude, Self-reflection, Companionship, Wisdom, Inner Peace

9. “God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.”

John Milton

Divine Service, Humility, Patience, Obedience, Human Purpose

10. “Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.”

John Milton

Pride, Ambition, Fall, Rebellion, Hubris

11. “I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.”

John Milton

Divine Will, Acceptance, Human Limitation, Faith, Cosmic Purpose

12. “Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.”

John Milton

Time, Eternity, Measurement, Existence, Cosmic Order

13. “He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.”

John Milton

Inner Light, Conscience, Darkness, Self-imprisonment, Moral State

14. “The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.”

John Milton

Nature, Birds, Mythology, Power, Imagery

15. “Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world Of destined habitation.”

John Milton

Creation, Cosmos, Stars, Divine Work, Infinity

16. “Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.”

John Milton

Spirits, Gender, Supernatural, Transformation, Celestial Beings

17. “To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.”

John Milton

Ambition, Hell, Heaven, Pride, Power

18. “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

John Milton

Liberty, Knowledge, Free Speech, Conscience, Human Rights

19. “The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.”

John Milton

Satan, Despair, Strength, Rebellion, Fallen Angel

20. “Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.”

John Milton

Gender Roles, Divine Law, Power, Marriage, Patriarchy

21. “That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .”

John Milton

Evil, Transformation, Goodness, Satan, Moral Complexity

22. “Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...”

John Milton

Reconciliation, Hate, Forgiveness, Human Nature, Conflict

23. “Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.”

John Milton

Suffering, Adaptation, Hell, Transformation, Human Resilience