Quotes from John Donne
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
- John Donne
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
- John Donne
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
- John Donne
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
- John Donne
In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
- John Donne
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
- John Donne
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
- John Donne
Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.
- John Donne
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
- John Donne
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 a great Prince in prison lies.
- John Donne
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
- John Donne
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 world.
- John Donne