List of John Donne Quotes

Never Start With Tomorrow To Reach Eternity. Eternity Is Not Being Reached By Small Steps.

Let Man's Soul Be A Sphere, And Then, In This, The Intelligence That Moves, Devotion Is.

As Peace Is Of All Goodness, So War Is An Emblem, A Hieroglyphic, Of All Misery.

The World Is A Great Volume, And Man The Index Of That Book; Even In The Body Of Man, You May Turn To The Whole World.

There Is In Every Miracle A Silent Chiding Of The World, And A Tacit Reprehension Of Them Who Require, Or Who Need Miracles.

We Are All Conceived In Close Prison; In Our Mothers Wombs, We Are Close Prisoners All; When We Are Born, We Are Born But To The Liberty Of The House; Prisoners Still, Though Within Larger Walls; And Then All Our Life Is But A Going Out To The Place Of Execution, To Death.

And If There Be Any Addition To Knowledge, It Is Rather A New Knowledge Than A Greater Knowledge; Rather A Singularity In A Desire Of Proposing Something That Was Not Knownat All Beforethananimproving, Anadvancing, A Multiplying Of Former Inceptions; And By That Means, No Knowledge Comes To Be Perfect.

Other Men's Crosses Are Not My Crosses.

I Did Best When I Had Least Truth For My Subjects.

If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree, Whose Fruit Threw Death On Else Immortal Us, If Lecherous Goats, If Serpents Envious Cannot Be Damned; Alas; Why Should I Be?

Oft From New Truths, And New Phrase, New Doubts Grow, As Strange Attire Aliens The Men We Know.

Oh Do Not Die, For I Shall Hate All Women So, When Thou Art Gone.