John Donne Quotes about Death

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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

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.

John Donne

Inspirational, Friendship, Death

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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

John Donne

Death, Grief, Bereavement

John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”

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

Death, Art, Thinking

'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 6 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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

John Donne

Death, Sleep, Past

Holy Sonnets no. 6 (1609)

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

John Donne

Death, Book, Men

John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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

Death, Peace, Grief

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

John Donne

Love, Death, Self

'Songs and Sonnets' 'Song: Sweetest love, I do not go'

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

John Donne

Death, Men, Birth

John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.240

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

John Donne

Death, Sheets, Intricate

John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.468

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

John Donne

Death, Men, Good Man

John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.241

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

John Donne

Death, Exercise, Swimming

John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.321

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

John Donne

Death, Envy, Tree

Holy Sonnets no. 5 (published 1633)

John Donne Quotes about Death

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