425 Quotes by John Donne

Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve

Death, thou shalt die.

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.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.