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John Milton Quotes on Death

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1. “Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.”

John Milton

Death, Personification, Horror, Famine, Poetic Imagery

2. “How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.”

John Milton

Mortality, Death, Nature, Rest, Maternal Imagery

3. “A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.”

John Milton

Death, Sleep, Immortality, Transition, Afterlife

4. “Where all life dies death lives.”

John Milton

Death, Life, Paradox, Existence, Philosophical Musing

5. “To live a life half dead, a living death.”

John Milton

Life, Death, Existence, Suffering, Paradox

6. “Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!”

John Milton

Death, Oblivion, Cure, Existence, Paradox

7. “Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.”

John Milton

Death, Nobility, Acceptance, Grief, Honor

8. “Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.”

John Milton

Self-control, Sin, Death, Temptation, Moral Guidance

9. “Death ready stands to interpose his dart.”

John Milton

Death, Mortality, Threat, Inevitability, Human Vulnerability

10. “Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”

John Milton

Death, Eternity, Afterlife, Transition, Metaphor

11. “I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.”

John Milton

Death, Hell, Fear, Power Of Words, Cosmic Response

12. “Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north – wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!”

John Milton

Death, Nature, Seasons, Mortality, Inevitability

13. “Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.”

John Milton

Divine Judgment, Sin, Death, Misery, Fallen World

14. “Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.”

John Milton

Nature, Chaos, Birth, Death, Cosmic Cycle

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