Quotes from Paradise Lost — John Milton
1608–1674 England
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The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Paradise Lost (1667)
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Paradise Lost (1667)
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Paradise Lost (1667)
The brandished sword of God before them blazed,
Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat,
And vapour as the Libyan air adust,
Began to parch that temperate clime.
Paradise Lost (1667)
Me miserable! which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep
Still threatening to devour me opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Paradise Lost (1667)
Death introduc'd through fierce antipathie:
Beast now with Beast gan war, & Fowle with Fowle,
And Fish with Fish; to graze the Herb all leaving,
Devourd each other
Paradise Lost (1667)