John Donne Quotes

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

The soul that loves God has its rest in God and in God alone. In all the paths that men walk in in the world, they do not attain peace until they draw nigh to hope in God.

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.