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…

Quote by John Donne

Topics: Death Quotes

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

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

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a...

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a...

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.

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

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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...

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,...

Whoever loves, if he do not propose the right true end of love, he's one...

Whoever loves, if he do not propose the right true end of love, he's one...

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;...

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

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

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

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...

Love is the only angel, who can bid the gates unroll, and when he comes...

Love is the only angel, who can bid the gates unroll, and when he comes...

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...

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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.

Ll our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

Ll our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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

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

Reason should direct and appetite obey

Reason should direct and appetite obey

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion...

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion...