John Donne Quotes About Prisons

Quotes about: Prisons

• We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

  John Donne

  Mother, Wall, Jail

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.280, Oxford University Press, USA

• Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

  John Donne

  Death, Men, Birth

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.240

• That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

  John Donne

  Lying, Men, Soul

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Ecstasy'

• All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

  John Donne

  Life And Death, Prison Life, Going Out

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.500

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