Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Quote by John Donne

Topics: Disappointment Quotes, Love Quotes

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

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

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure...

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure...

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his...

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his...

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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...

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven

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

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

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...

Imagine God to be at play with us, but a gamester...

Imagine God to be at play with us, but a gamester...

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

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

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

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...

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.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference...

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference...

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and...

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and...