John Donne Quotes, Fall Quotes, Expression Quotes

When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

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Death is an ascension to a better library.

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I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve

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. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

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Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.

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On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

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we give each other a smile with a future in it

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Death is an ascension to a better library.

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The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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