John Milton Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

• Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

  John Milton

  Moon, Madness, Melancholy

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 485

• O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

  John Milton

  Strong, Wine, Thinking

  John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.380

• If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers.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

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