John Donne Quotes on Death & Dying (11 Quotes)

Love is strong as death but nothing else is as strong as either and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ.

For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death things which are not.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more death, thou shalt die.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all offices of death, except to kill.

Doth not a man die even in his birth The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison.

We asked none leave to love nor will we oweAny, so cheap a death, as saying, Go

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.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.