John Donne Quotes

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 friend's 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 bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Great sorrows cannot speak.

. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

we give each other a smile with a future in it

I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

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.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...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.

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve

I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.