John Donne Quotes

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

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• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Luckier

• However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

  

  Nazim Hikmet
  • Live
  • Die
  • Never

• I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Young

• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
  • Die
  • Fast

• Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Inspiration
  • Blessing
  • Mysterious

• In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Die

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Ocean

• I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

  

  Zendaya
  • Live
  • Me
  • Die

• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Friends
  • Die
  • Regret

• I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Life
  • Love
  • Simple

• When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Die
  • Legacy

• Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Die
  • New York
  • Reputation

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Freedom
  • Die

• Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Die
  • Question
  • Old

• We all have a weakness for beauty.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Beauty
  • Weakness

• I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Feminist

• Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Intellect
  • Immortal
  • Soul Of Man

• I am certainly humbled to receive the American Voice Award and join the ranks of so many people that I admire.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • People
  • American

• All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• 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
  • Die
  • Mysterious
  • Phoenix