Samson Agonistes Quotes

“But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt,
And by thir vices brought to servitude,
Than to love Bondage more than Liberty,
Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty;”
― John Milton, Samson Agonistes

“All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.”
― John Milton, Samson Agonistes

“Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
This unfrequented place to find some ease,
Ease to the body some, none to the mind
From restless thoughts, that like a deadly swarm
Of Hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, 
But rush upon me thronging, and present
Times past, what once I was, and what am now.”
― John Milton, Samson Agonistes

“Nothing dishonourable, impure, unworthy
Our God, our law, my nation, or my self
The last of me or not can not warrant”
― John Milton, Samson Agonistes

“O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse
Without all hope of day!
O first created Beam, and thou great Word,
Let there be light, and light was over all;
Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree?
The Sun to me is dark
And silent as the Moon,
When she deserts the night
Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.”
― John Milton, Samson Agonistes

“…Promise was that I
Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver;
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him
Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves…”
― John Milton, Samson Agonistes

“Myself my sepulcher, a moving grave,
Buried, yet not exempt
By privilege of death and burial
From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs,
But made hereby obnoxious
To all the miseries of life.”
― John Milton, Samson Agonistes