John Milton Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

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

  John Milton

  Darkness, Innocence, Lost

• 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

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

  John Milton

  Darkness, Weakness, Martyr

• A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

  John Milton

  Flames, Light, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

• The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

  John Milton

  Dark, Moon, Night

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 86

• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  John Milton

  Life, Queens, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

• How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

  John Milton

  Fall, Night, Wings

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.248-51.

• Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

  John Milton

  Light, Order, Voice

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, 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

• 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

• The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

  John Milton

  Truth, Ignorance, Eye

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.387

• It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

  John Milton

  Dark, Eclipse, Bark

  John Milton (1785). “Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin”, p.18

• Dark with excessive bright.

  John Milton

  Dark, Darkness

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 380

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

  John Milton

  Light, Flames, Darkness

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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