Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Quote by John Donne
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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John Donne Quotes
- Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
- Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- 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.
- Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.
- Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
- 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.
- Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
- More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
- No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
- Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Best Quotes
- If you can't see the sun at day Thank God, you can see the moon at night It is not the same for the blind.
- Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
- While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
- Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
- In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
- Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
- To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
- Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
- I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
- A good listener is usually thinking about something else.