John Donne Quotes - Page 8

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• I find no abhorring in my appetite.

  John Donne

  Appetite

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.540

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• All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

  John Donne

  War, Law, Soul

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 4 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• Whoever loves, if he do not propose
  The right true end of love, he's one that goes
  To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

  John Donne

  Love, Sea, Sick

  'Elegies' 'Love's Progress' (1599-1601)

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• My love though silly is more brave.

  John Donne

  Silly, Brave

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

  John Donne

  Heart, Mad, May

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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• How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

  John Donne

  Dating, Church, Noble

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• Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

  John Donne

  Past, Punishment, Faults

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.561

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• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

  John Donne

  Greatness, Men, World

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• We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

  John Donne

  Love, Peace, Ashes

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

  John Donne

  Children, Yesterday, Sorrow

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

  Doors, Noise, Whining

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

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• Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

  John Donne

  Littles, Twins, Truth And Falsehood

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.411

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• Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

  John Donne

  Men, Affliction, Treasure

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.575

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• But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

  John Donne

  Sleep, Thinking

  John Donne (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

  John Donne

  Angel, Men, Understanding

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.455

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• True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

  John Donne

  Love, Time, Writing

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

  John Donne

  Life, Women, Swear

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

  John Donne

  Health, Physicians, Neutrality

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.81

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• The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

  John Donne

  Philosophy, Men, Differences

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.141, Paulist Press

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• I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

  John Donne

  Love, Country, Wonder

  Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

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• Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

  John Donne

  Sickness, Wells, Knows

  John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.19, Litres

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• Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

  John Donne

  Two, Space, Done

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.370

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• Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

  John Donne

  Men, Heaven

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

  John Donne

  Love, Heart, Eye

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.227, Harvard University Press

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• If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

  John Donne

  God, Gnats, Creeps

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.415

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