John Donne Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?”

“But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.”

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

“As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.”

“Pleasure is none, if not diversified.”

“Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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