John Milton Quotes

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

They'll take everything, even your tears.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

No one doesn't have loss. No one doesn't have pain.

There was a time I thought I'd never see the sun again.

I know how it feels to lose.

Nothing will make a place feel unlike home like chaos.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

Take me away from all this Death.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

Hope is a demon worse than your Pain.

What was more brutal than loss of hope?

When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow, it is the abyss into which Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray of light, no sound of human voice or human touch of hand.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

I hope peace is a part of everyday life.