John Donne - Fear Quotes

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And now good morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room, an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is
one.

John Donne

I observe the physician, with the same diligence, as he the disease; I see he fears, and I fear with him...

John Donne

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

John Donne

I know not what fear is, nor I know not what it is that I fear now; I fear not the hastening of my death, and yet I do fear the increase of the disease... my weakness is from nature, who hath but her measure, my strength is from God, who possesses and distributes infinitely.

John Donne

A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knee, a noise in mine ear, a light in mine eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayer. So certainly is there nothing, nothing in spiritual things, perfect in this world.

John Donne