John Donne Quotes About Sickness

Quotes about: Sickness

• God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

  John Donne

  War, Justice, Age

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

• All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

  John Donne

  Life, War, Book

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.574

• We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Air, Long

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.496

• Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

  John Donne

  Art, Kings, War

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.448

• Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

  John Donne

  Sickness, Wells, Knows

  John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.19, Litres

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