13 Quotes by John Donne about Death

  • Author John Donne
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    God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

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    I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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    No man ever saw God and lived. And yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him, I shall never die.

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