Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Quotes

“As Sicknesse is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes is solitude; when the infectiousness of the disease deterss them who should assist from coming; even the Phisician dares scarse come... it is an Outlawry, and excommunication upon the patient....”
― John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

“No man is an island, no man stands alone . . . Each man's death diminishes me, because I am involved with mankind . . .”
― John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

“Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

“The Sunne who goes so many miles in a minut, The Starres of the Firmament, which go so very many more, goe not so fast, as my body to the earth.”
― John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions