John Milton Paradise Quotations

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety / In Paradise of all things common else.

Into a Limbo large and broad, since called / The paradise of fools, to few unknown.

Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!