John Donne Quotes on Man (11 Quotes)

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

For as every man is a world in himself, so every man is a church in himself

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature he does not only make one, but he is all he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust. Called by His Majestys household the Doctors Own Funeral Sermon.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

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.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

It is too little to call man a little world Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.