All John Donne Quotes
- Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. Beauty
- More than kisses, letters mingle souls. Kisses
- Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. Beginning
- No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. Age
- God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. Age
- Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. Bury
- For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. God
- 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.… Art
- 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… Atheism
- When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. Better
- Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. Alike
- Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. Elephant
- Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. Art
- Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? Busy
- I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. Diligence
- The day breaks not, it is my heart. Break
- 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… All
- 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… All
- No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be… Any
- Then love is sin, and let me sinful be. Inspirational
- Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be… Adore
- I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so. Fool
- That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget. Claim
- ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee Ask
- Other men's crosses are not my crosses. Crosses