Quotes from John Donne
Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
- John Donne
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
- John Donne
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love
- John Donne
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
- John Donne
Death, thou shalt die.
- John Donne
Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
- John Donne
Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee, 'and bend Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.
- John Donne
That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.
- John Donne
I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye...
- 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
Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
- John Donne