All John Donne Quotes
- Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our… Bell
- 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 knees,… Brain
- Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in… All
- I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near. Book
- Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill All
- O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall! Add
- That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else… Affection
- The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me. Anger
- One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. Death
- So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away. Both
- All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And… Age
- And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair. Fair
- . . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity. Change
- Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie… Brought
- 'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's. Day
- Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun… All
- All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a… All
- This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not… Againe
- Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful… Both
- I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I… Destruction
- For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations,… Absence
- But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes. All
- Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that… Best
- I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?… Childishly
- We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for… Acre