John Donne Quotes & Quotations

John Donne Quotes

» 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.

» Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

» 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.

» No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

» 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.

» 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.

» I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

» When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

» I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

» Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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