Quotes from John Donne
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.
- John Donne
As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
- John Donne
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
- John Donne
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
- 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
Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
- 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
No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were 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
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
- John Donne
Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him...
- John Donne
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.
- John Donne
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
- John Donne