Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Donne

This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.

John Donne

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

John Donne

And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

John Donne

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.

John Donne

But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

John Donne

Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

John Donne

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

John Donne

We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

John Donne

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

John Donne

The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

John Donne

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

John Donne

The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

John Donne

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

John Donne

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

John Donne

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

John Donne

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

John Donne

Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

John Donne

Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

John Donne

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

John Donne

Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

John Donne

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

John Ortberg

If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

John Ortberg

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

John Ortberg

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

John O'Donohue

When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.

John N. Mitchell

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

There is no limit to the power of loving.

John Milton

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

John Milton

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

John Milton

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

John Milton

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

John Dewey

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.