Quotes from John Donne
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
- John Donne
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
- John Donne
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 love.
- John Donne
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.
- John Donne
Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.
- John Donne
...if I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow lose, he blasphemes, so that God is always sure to be a loser.
- John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...
- John Donne
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.
- John Donne
Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
- John Donne
I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
- John Donne
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
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.
- John Donne