John Donne Quotes

There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

A grave is such a quiet place.

When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

The living are just the dead on holiday

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

Peace is in the grave.

And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.