For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNEAnd what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
More John Donne Quotes
-
-
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE -
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNE -
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE -
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE -
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNE -
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE -
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE -
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 -
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
JOHN DONNE -
No man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNE -
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE -
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNE -
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE -
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNE -
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNE