John Milton Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

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

  John Milton

  Death, Keys, Eternity Of Life

• Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

  John Milton

  Light, Essence, Heaven

  John Milton, Sarah Siddons (1822). “The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons”, p.43

• Time, though in Eternity, applied
  To motion, measures all things durable
  By present, past, and future.

  John Milton

  Time, Past, Eternity

  John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.46

• Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

  John Milton

  Nature, War, Night

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.159

• And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?

  John Milton

  Pain, Night, Intellectual

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 146

• how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp

  John Milton

  Hate, Self, Liberty

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition”, p.66, Broadview Press

• Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

  John Milton

  Keys, Hands, Golden

  'Comus' (1637) l. 12

• Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

  John Milton

  Eye, Eternity, Ends

  John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

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