Quotes about Unity
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
— John Donne
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
— John Donne
If they be so two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other dar doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like the other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.
— John Donne
She is all states, and all princes, I. Nothing else is.
— John Donne
No man is an island, no man stands alone . . . Each man's death diminishes me, because I am involved with mankind . . .
— John Donne
Send not to know For whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
— John Donne
Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind.
— John Donne
No man is an island entirely of itself. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
— John Donne
You are earth; he whom you tread upon is no less, and he that treads upon you is no more.
— John Donne
But think that we Are but turn'd aside to sleep; They who one another keep Alive, ne'er parted be.
— John Donne
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
— John Donne
Thy breath in the congregation, thy word in the church, breathes communion and consolation here, and consummation hereafter;
— John Donne