John Milton Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Inspiring, Attitude

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)

• Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

  John Milton

  Power, Light, Long

  Paradise Lost bk. 2, l. 432 (1667)

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

  John Milton

  Death, War, Paradise

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 263 (1667)

• 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

• Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
  Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
  Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
  And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
  Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
  To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

  John Milton

  Wrath, Heaven, Suffering

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 73

• Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Towers, Architecture

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 748

• Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

  John Milton

  Jealous, Understanding, Lovers

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, John GILLIES (D.D., Minister of the College Church, Glasgow.) (1793). “Milton's Paradise Lost illustrated with Texts of Scripture, by John Gillies ... Second edition, with additions. (The Life of Mr. John Milton [by Elijah Fenton].).”, p.144

• Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
  To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

  John Milton

  Crazy, Ambition, Mad

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261

• Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  John Milton

  May, Riches, Soil

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)

• You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Heaven, Mind

• 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

  Death, Names, Caves

  John Milton (1754). “Paradise Lost”, p.148

• A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

  John Milton

  Night, Reign, Chaos

  John Milton (1903*). “Poetical Works”

• If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Memories, Law

• Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

  John Milton

  Pain, Venture, Way

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1831). “Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books”, p.99

• Hell has no benefits, only torture.

  John Milton

  Benefits, Hell, Torture

• Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

  John Milton

  Fighting, Dark, Fire

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.63

• And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

  John Milton

  Fall, Woe, Bliss

  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.352

• Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

  John Milton

  Men, Wings, Design

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.629-32.

• The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

  John Milton

  Night, Hands, Black

  John Milton (1832). “Milton's Poetical Works: Together with the Life of the Author”, p.56

• Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

  John Milton

  Steps, Hell

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.235

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

  John Milton

  Redemption, Hell, Lost

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.191

• All hell broke loose.

  John Milton

  Hell, Broke

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 917 (1667). "Hell were broken loose" appears in Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor act 3, sc. 4 (1601).

• Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

  John Milton

  Way, Paradise, Hell

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 73 (1667)

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