"For solitude sometimes is best society,Īnd short retirement urges sweet return. ".free, and to none accountable, preferring hard liberty before the easy yoke of servile pomp."ģ7. "Giving to death, and dying to redeem, So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So easily destroy'd, and still destroys."ģ6. "For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep "ģ5. Which way I fly is Hell myself am Hell "ģ4. "How shall I behold the face Henceforth of God or angel, erst with joy And rapture so oft beheld?" Important 'Paradise Lost' QuotesĪ few noteworthy quotes from the poem hand-picked for you.ģ2. Of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust," Of Preface brooking through his Zeal of Right." "Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue "To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:īetter to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n."īy force, hath overcome but half his foe."ģ0. "Our labour must be to pervert that end,Īnd out of good still to find means of evil…"Ģ7. Our prison strong, this huge convex of fire."Ģ6. "Seized us, though undismayed: long is the wayĪnd hard, that out of hell leads up to light "And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven."Ģ5. "How dearly I abide that boast so vain Under what torments I inwardly groan, While they adore me on the throne of hell."Ģ4. "To visit oft this new creation round Unspeakable desire to see, and know All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man, His chief delight and favour. "All is not lost the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield (And what is else not to be overcome?)"Ģ2. Many consider the quote "Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n." from Satan as the most famous quote of the poem. The iconic Satan quotes from 'Paradise Lost' will send chills down your spine. "Greedily she ingorg'd without restraint, And knew not eating death." "God is thy law, thou mine to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise."Ģ0. To love or not in this we stand or fall."ġ9. ".to thy husband's will thine shall submit, he over thee shall rule."
"The mind is its own place, and in it selfĬan make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."ġ7. "et this him know, Lest willfully transgressing he pretend Surprisal, unadmonish'd, unforewarn'd."ġ6. "In sin for ever lost from life this act Shall bruise the head of Satan, crush his strength Defeating Sin and Death, his two main arms."ġ5.
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"I form'd them free, and free they must remain, Till they entrall themselves."ġ4. "Be it so, for I submit: his doom is fair, That dust I am, and shall to dust return."ġ2. Some famous quotes from the poem are listed below.ġ1. "Pleas'd it return'd as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love: there I had fixt Mine eyes till now, and pin'd with vain desire." "Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, One flesh to lose thee were to lose myself."ġ0. "The law of God exact he shall fulfill Both by obedience and by love, though love Alone fulfil the law: thy punishment He shall endure by coming in the flesh To a reproachful life and cursed death."ĩ. ".transgress, and slight that sole command, so easily obeyed amid the choice of all tastes else to please their appetite."Ĩ. "Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven, Affecting Godhead, and so losing all."ħ. "I alone seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent from all: my sect thou seest, now learn too late how few sometimes may know, when thousands err."Ħ. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,ĥ. "Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: "Whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have I made him just and right Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall."Ĥ. Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss"ģ. Narrator, Book I, the first line of the poem.Ģ. "Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe." Here's a list of important quotes from the epic poem.ġ. If you like what you read, then check out John Milton quotes and Dante's 'Inferno' quotes as well! Quotes From 'Paradise Lost'
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