• Categories
  • John Donne Quotes   486
  • Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Donne Quotes , Lying Quotes , Night Quotes
  • Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Donne Quotes , Men Quotes , Whispering Quotes
  • At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Donne Quotes , Greatness Quotes , Men Quotes
  • We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Donne Quotes , Mother Quotes , Wall Quotes