John Donne Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

  John Donne

  Joy, Serenity, Heaven

• If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

  John Donne

  Dream, Joy, Ifs

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Dream' ('Image of her whom I love')

• True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

  John Donne

  True Joy, Heaven, Soul

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.80

• Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

  John Donne

  Happiness, Joy, Enjoyment

• Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

  John Donne

  Men, Joy, Suffering

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.575

• . . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

  John Donne

  Life, Change, Joy

  John Donne (2012). “John Donne”, p.39, Faber & Faber

• Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

  John Donne

  Joy, Soul, Body

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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