All John Donne Quotes
- I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither... Angel
- At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels. Angel
- The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole… Body
- A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present. Art
- Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And… Art
- Who are a little wise the best fools be. Best
- Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period. Eternity
- We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to… All
- Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies… Any
- So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often. Affect
- If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas;… Alas
- God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a… Angel
- 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… Angel
- There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle,… Admiration
- I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid. All
- I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd? Inspirational
- Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is. Doubt
- If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical. All
- And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And… All
- Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest,… Arrest
- 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,… Breath
- Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. Funny
- True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe… Earnest
- Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible;… Beginning
- Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word… Believe