John Donne Quotes

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.... 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.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.