Quotes about Connection
Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
— John Donne
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
— John Donne
I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye...
— John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
— 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
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of Love was born.
— John Donne
But, O alas! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?
— John Donne
Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name
— 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
You are earth; he whom you tread upon is no less, and he that treads upon you is no more.
— John Donne
The World is a great Volume, and man the Index of that Booke; even in the Body of Man, you may turne to the whole world.
— John Donne