Paradise Lost Satan Quotes

#1. Courage is the will to act in the face of any fear.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.

Mitch Hedberg

#3. If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

Emilio Pucci

#4. I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.

Andrew Pyper

#5. There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.

John Milton

#7. When we do something with a quite simple, clear mind, we have no notion or shadows, and our activity is strong and straightforward. But when we do something with a complicated mind, in relation to other things or people, or society, our activity becomes very complex.

Shunryu Suzuki

#8. Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

Sally Ride

#9. We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.

Mamoru Oshii

#10. England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.

Kevin Keegan

#11. Steve had a TEAC reel-to-reel and massive quantities of Dylan bootlegs," Kottke recalled. "He was both really cool and high-tech.

Walter Isaacson

#12. Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.

Philip Pullman

#13. I'm not thrilled. And I totally reserve the right to angst over all this later. But honestly, Mom? Right now, I'm so happy to see you that I wouldn't care if you're secretly a ninja sent from the future to destroy kittens and rainbows.

Rachel Hawkins

#14. In this world, everything has a pulse or a vibration. This sound is unique to each living or non-living thing and in itself creates a music that no-one can hear. I believe that this has a very powerful resonance with, and a deep effect on, our lives.

Mike Oldfield

#15. His family included all the demigods who fought at his side, Roman and Greek, new friends and old. He wasn't going to let anyone break his family apart.

Rick Riordan

#16. Everybody is a dumb blonde at heart.

Jessica Simpson

#17. To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

C.S. Lewis

#18. She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.

James Frey

#19. When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn't lose?

Randy Alcorn

#20. To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.

Carine Roitfeld