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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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31. “O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!”

John Milton

Darkness, Despair, Blindness, Hopelessness, Personal Lament

32. “Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.”

John Milton

Divine Appeal, Goodness, Evil, Light And Darkness, Prayer

33. “Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.”

John Milton

Angels, Heaven, Music, Divine Glory, Celestial Imagery

34. “In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.”

John Milton

Labor, Mortality, Human Condition, Biblical Allusion, Life Cycle

35. “Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.”

John Milton

Love, Marriage, Happiness, Divine Law, Human Relationship

36. “Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.”

John Milton

Wisdom, Philosophy, Vanity, Skepticism, Human Knowledge

37. “In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.”

John Milton

Marriage, Companionship, Divine Purpose, Conversation, Happiness

38. “Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.”

John Milton

Peace, Victory, War, Achievement, Human Progress

39. “The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.”

John Milton

Divine Message, Enchantment, Adam, Angelic Voice, Attention

40. “He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”

John Milton

Revenge, Healing, Forgiveness, Self-harm, Wisdom

41. “For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.”

John Milton

Books, Knowledge, Good And Evil, Discernment, Intellectual Nourishment

42. “That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.”

John Milton

Deception, Hypocrisy, Revenge, Evil, Appearances

43. “The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.”

John Milton

Love, Sorrow, Nature, Poetry, Melancholy

44. “Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.”

John Milton

Hell, Darkness, Paradox, Spiritual State, Imagery

45. “For what can war, but endless war, still breed?”

John Milton

War, Cycle Of Violence, Futility, Conflict, Human Nature

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

John Milton

Blindness, Suffering, Resilience, Perspective, Human Condition

47. “Pandemonium, the palace of Satan rises, suddenly built of the deep: the infernal peers there sit in council.”

John Milton

Hell, Satan, Evil, Council, Cosmic Order

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

John Milton

Despair, Hell, Hopelessness, Suffering, Damnation

49. “Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”

John Milton

Loneliness, Divine Judgment, Human Nature, Companionship, Creation

50. “Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.”

John Milton

Pride, Fall, Divine Punishment, Hell, Ambition

51. “Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.”

John Milton

Melancholy, Purity, Solemnity, Personification, Imagery

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

John Milton

Nature, Chaos, Birth, Death, Cosmic Cycle

53. “Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.”

John Milton

Danger, Failure, Ambition, Human Nature, Metaphor

54. “From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.”

John Milton

Nature, Spirits, Melancholy, Departure, Poetic Imagery

55. “Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.”

John Milton

Nature, Sleep, Tranquility, Imagery, Sensory Experience

56. “Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.”

John Milton

Goodness, Perception, Innocence, Judgment, Moral Purity

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

John Milton

Poetry, Inspiration, Cosmic Themes, Divine Guidance, Spiritual Journey

58. “What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?”

John Milton

Defense, Vulnerability, Strategy, Inconsistency, Futility

59. “I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.”

John Milton

Anger, Reconciliation, Nature, Human Emotion, Divine Wrath

60. “If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.”

John Milton

Weakness, Sin, Excuse, Divine Judgment, Moral Responsibility

415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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