John Donne Quotes


Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne Death 212
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. John Donne Prayer 171
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,As I have seen in one autumnal face. John Donne Seasons 117
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne Art 116
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak. John Donne Letters 104
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. John Donne Doubt 101
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. John Donne Nudity 101
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. John Donne Beginning 100
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne Beauty 99
Pleasure is none, if not diversified. John Donne Pleasure 95
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. John Donne Philosophy 94
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. John Donne Help 88
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. John Donne Motivation 85
Come live with me, and be my love,And we will some new pleasures proveOf golden sands, and crystal brooks,With silken lines, and silver hooks. John Donne Love 83
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. John Donne Suffering 78
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. John Donne beauty 76
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. John Donne Love 74
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? John Donne Love 73
When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity. John Donne Last 73
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole. John Donne Greatness 72
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. John Donne Poetry 71
Be your own palace, or the world is your jail. John Donne Independence 70
Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee. John Donne Age 69
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. John Donne Doctors 69
When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. John Donne Exercise 69
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world. John Donne Humanity 68
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak. John Donne Letters 67
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. John Donne Remembrance 65
This is joys bonfire then where loves strong arts Make of so noble individual parts One fire of four inflaming eyes and of two loving hearts. John Donne Marriage 65
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. John Donne Love 63
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. John Donne Atheism 62
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no. John Donne Death 61
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. John Donne Rejection 58
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else. John Donne God 58
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. John Donne Death 56
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. John Donne Infatuation 56
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. John Donne Age 56
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were. John Donne Uncategorized 55
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. John Donne Faith 51
...Whatever dies was not mixed equally If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken none can die. John Donne Poetry quotes 49
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. John Donne Evil 47
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery. John Donne Uncategorized 45
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner. John Donne Mistakes 45
As soon as there was two there was pride. John Donne Uncategorized 44
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. John Donne Death 43
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. John Donne Being 42
As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else. John Donne Faith 40
And to scape stormy days I choose an everlasting night. John Donne Christ 37
Loves mysteries in souls do grow But yet the body is his book. John Donne Soul 36
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory. John Donne God 34

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