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John Milton Quotes on Suffering

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1. “Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.”

John Milton

Pleasure, Contentment, Pain, Suffering, Human Condition

2. “Hell has no benefits, only torture.”

John Milton

Hell, Suffering, Punishment, Afterlife, Divine Judgment

3. “O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!”

John Milton

Blindness, Suffering, Vulnerability, Adversity, Disability

4. “Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.”

John Milton

Jealousy, Love, Suffering, Human Emotion, Relationship

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

John Milton

Life, Death, Existence, Suffering, Paradox

6. “Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.”

John Milton

Truth, Suffering, Fortitude, Victory, Faith

7. “Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!”

John Milton

Debt, Suffering, Eternity, Damnation, Consequence

8. “To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.”

John Milton

Weakness, Misery, Action, Suffering, Human Condition

9. “Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?”

John Milton

Suffering, Strength, Loss, Pain, Artistic Creation

10. “Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.”

John Milton

Despair, Hell, Hopelessness, Suffering, Damnation

11. “To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.”

John Milton

Blindness, Suffering, Resilience, Perspective, Human Condition

12. “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

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