Quotes By Author

Sort by Topic

Quotations By John Donne


Beauty
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.

Eternity
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

Eternity
I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Individuality
No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as ifa promitory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; 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.

Love
O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.

Love
Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.

Love
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.