425 Quotes by John Donne

I joy, that in these straits I see my west;.

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.

Sleep is pain’s easiest salve.

O miserable condition of man, which is not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after falses riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge.

I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man’s grave is his Sabbath.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself... 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.

No man is an island entirely of itself. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.