Death Quotes by John Milton

What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

— John Milton

Death from sin no power can separate.

— John Milton

Where all life dies death lives.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

— John Milton

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

— John Milton

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

— John Milton

Death to life is crown or shame.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

— John Milton

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

— John Milton

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

— John Milton

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

— John Milton

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

When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that…

— John Milton

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and…

— John Milton

“So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate, Giving to death, and dying to redeem, So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So…

— John Milton

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss…

— John Milton

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my…

— John Milton

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all,…

— John Milton

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n,…

— John Milton

It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account…

— John Milton

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked,…

— John Milton

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of…

— John Milton

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And…

— John Milton

“  Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, despair   Tended the sick busiest from Couch to Couch;   And over them triumphant Death his…

— John Milton

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age!…

— John Milton

“Thus began   Outrage from liveless things; but Discord first   Daughter of Sin, among th' irrational,   Death introduc'd through fierce antipathie:   Beast now…

— John Milton

To live a life half dead, a living death.

— John Milton

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

— John Milton

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

— John Milton

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

— John Milton

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

— John Milton

And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

— John Milton

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our…

— John Milton

“Thou at the sight Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile, While by thee raised I ruin all my foes,…

— John Milton

“Here at last We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here…

— John Milton