10 John Donne Quotes on Time

John Donne quotes on time

10. Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?

11. Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

19. Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.

21. When I died last, and dear, I die As often as from thee I go.

24. 'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.

25. All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

36. I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

50. Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

68. What if this present were the world's last night?

81. Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.