To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNEFull nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
More John Donne Quotes
-
-
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE -
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNE -
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE -
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
JOHN DONNE -
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNE -
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNE -
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNE -
No man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNE -
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE -
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE -
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE -
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE -
Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
JOHN DONNE -
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNE -
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE