John Donne Quotes

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

We die, and we do not die.

You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

In my beginning is my end.