Quotes from John Donne
As soon as there was two there was pride
- John Donne
The Phoenix riddle hath more witBy us, we two being one, are it.So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,We die and rise the same, and proveMysterious by this love.
- John Donne
For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
- John Donne
Our eye-beams twisted, and did threadOur eyes, upon one double string;So to entergraft our hands, as yetWas all the means to make us one,And pictures in our eyes to getWas all our propagation.
- John Donne
Yesternight the sun went hence,And yet is here today.
- John Donne
Dull sublunary lovers' love(Whose soul is sense) cannot admitAbsence, because it doth removeThose things which elemented it.
- John Donne
Full nakedness! All joyes are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be, To taste whole joyes.
- John Donne
'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?O wilt thou therefore rise from me?Why should we rise, because 'tis light?Did we lie down, because 'twas night?Love which in spite of darkness brought us hitherShould in despite of light keep us together.
- John Donne
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
I have done one braver thingThan all the Worthies did;And yet a braver thence doth spring,Which is, to keep that hid.
- John Donne
Her pure, and eloquent bloodSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,That one might almost say, her body thought.
- John Donne
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
- John Donne