Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Quote by John Donne

Topics: Disappointment Quotes, Love Quotes

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

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

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.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

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

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

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

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

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some...

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some...

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call...

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call...

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

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

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by...

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by...

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...

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

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

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...

Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and...

Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou 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...

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.

Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.