Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Quote by John Donne

Topics: Disappointed Love Quotes, Love Quotes

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to...

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to...

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee.

Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee.

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it...

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it...

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

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

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the...

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out;...

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out;...

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; death,...

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; death,...

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated...

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated...

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

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

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and...

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and...

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated...

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated...

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given...

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given...

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of...

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of...

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness...

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness...