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John Donne Quotes
«No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a 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 . . .»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Country,
Friends,
Mankind,
Nations
| Keywords:
an island, clod, Continent, Europe, island, promontory, the continent, Thine, washed, wash away
«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 myself in jest, / Thus by feigned deaths to die.»
«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.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
Dead Sea, declare, impotency, lake, shipwreck, shipwrecked, shipwrecks, swimming, Take Me, weedy
«I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.»
«As soon as there was two there was pride»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Pride
«So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
benight, breaking away, breaking off, break away, break off, ghost, lamenting, selves, so-so, sucks, vapours
«As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Family,
Nations,
Weakness
| Keywords:
chancery, compose, emergent, keep quiet, parliament, subsists