Quotes from John Donne
I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.
- John Donne
If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
- John Donne
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
- John Donne
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
- John Donne
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
- John Donne
No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
- John Donne
All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
- John Donne
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
- John Donne
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?
- John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
- John Donne
No man is an island unto himself.
- John Donne