Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. J
  4. John Milton
  5. Darkness

John Milton Quotes about Darkness

All John Milton Quotes Age Ambition Arguing Art Atheism Beauty Bible Blindness Bliss Censorship Change Chaos Children Choices Christ Confusion Conscience Contemplation Country Dancing Darkness quotes Death Design Devil Duty Earth Eating Envy Eternity Evil Experience Failing Faith Fame Fate Fear Fighting Flight Freedom Giving Glory God Gold Goodness Grace Gratitude Grief Happiness Harmony Hate Heart Heaven Hell Home Hope Horror House Husband Immortality Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Joy Judging Judgment Justice Knowledge Labour Language Laughter Learning Liberty Life Logic Losing Loss Love Lying Madness Marriage Memories Moon Morning Motivational Mountain Music Nature Office Opportunity Pain Passion Past Patience Peace Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Power Prayer Pride Purpose Reading Redemption Retirement Revenge Running Satan Science Scripture Shame Silence Silver Sin Singing Sleep Society Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Sports Spring Study Suffering Summer Temptation Thankfulness Time Train Truth Twilight Tyranny Understanding Victory Virtue Vision Waiting War Water Weakness Wealth Wine Winning Work Writing Youth
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

John Milton
Darkness, Innocence, Lost

Dark with excessive bright.

John Milton
Dark, Darkness
'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 380

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

John Milton
Darkness, Weakness, Martyr

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

John Milton
Light, Flames, Darkness
'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

John Milton
Night, Rose, Darkness
John Milton, Thomas Newton (1809). “The poetical works of John Milton: from the text of Doctor Newton with the life of the author”, p.325

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

John Milton
Light, Darkness, Horror
John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.94

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

John Milton
Men, Darkness, Clay
John Milton (1838). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.357

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

John Milton
Light, Waiting, Darkness
John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.47

You May Also Like: