John Donne Life Quotations

Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

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

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

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another