Quote

In heaven it is always autumn.

John Donne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
Lawyer
Pastor
Poet
Politician
Songwriter
Translator
Writer
London
England
Very Rev. John Donne
Autumn
Heaven
Always

More quotes by John Donne

Image
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither but an obscenity.
John Donne
Image
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
John Donne
Image
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
John Donne
Image
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
John Donne
Image
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John Donne
Image
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
John Donne
Image
And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
John Donne
Image
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
John Donne
Image
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
John Donne
Image
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne
Image
That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.
John Donne
Image
It is too little to call man a little world Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
John Donne
Image
I shall not live 'till I see God and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
John Donne
Image
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
John Donne
Image
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
John Donne
Image
Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
John Donne
Image
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
John Donne
Image
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
John Donne
Image
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne
Image
My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
John Donne