John Donne Quotes

Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.

Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.

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.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

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

Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

I joy, that in these straits I see my west;

No man is an island, entire of itself.