Elements Quote by John Milton Download Open image “Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.” — John Milton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elements Length May Suffering Time Torment
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their… — John Milton Copy Share Image
In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a certain day… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The torments of hell abide for ever.... If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death. — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. — John Milton Copy Share Image
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? — John Milton Copy Share Image
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you… — Shakira Copy Share Image
I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
