John Donne on confusion
John Donne86 quotes“Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!”
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John DonneJohn Donne Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
John DonneJohn Donne I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
John DonneJohn Donne For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
John DonneJohn Donne Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John DonneJohn Donne All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
John DonneJohn Donne God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
John DonneJohn Donne I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
John DonneJohn Donne We give each other a smile with a future in it.
John DonneJohn Donne Death is an ascension to a better library.
John DonneJohn Donne 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.
John DonneJohn Donne Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
John DonneJohn Donne How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
John DonneJohn Donne God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John DonneJohn Donne I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
John DonneJohn Donne I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
John DonneJohn Donne
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy I’m shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren’t you like this in normal life? Why can’t you act in your social life? ‘Because I can’t!’
Heath LedgerHeath Ledger Free will exist only in a confused mind.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
Ice CubeIce Cube Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
David LynchDavid Lynch Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.
David LynchDavid Lynch Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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