Person God Quotes by John Donne

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

— John Donne

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

— John Donne

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but…

— John Donne

We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that…

— John Donne

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my…

— John Donne

Various content To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part. If then your body go, what need you a heart?

— John Donne

“Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise,…

— John Donne

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

— John Donne

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

— John Donne

For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull…

— John Donne

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and…

— John Donne

All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by…

— John Donne

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

— John Donne

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the…

— John Donne

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make…

— John Donne