Logo
Quote by John Donne
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are

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

Other quotes by John Donne

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. – John Donne

Category:
Beauty
Author
John Donne
Read Quote

When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. – John Donne

Category:
Exercise
Author
John Donne
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Prison
category

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet

Category:
Prison

A fly and a flea in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the Flea, Let us fly!
Said the Fly, Let us flee!
So they fled through a flaw in the flue. – Anon.

Category:
Prison

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller

Category:
Prison

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

Category:
Prison

Random Quotes

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. – Will Ferrell

Category:
funny

I dont see pitches down the middle anymore – not even in batting practice. – Hank Aaron

Category:
Sports :: Baseball

Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them. God will give him the strength: His Name will be an impenetrable armor. It will save him from all the consequences. – Swami Brahmanada

Category:
Planning

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Will, Willpower