no man is an island



no man is an island

Human beings necessarily depend on one another, as in You can't manage this all by yourself; no man is an island. This expression is a quotation from John Donne's Devotions (1624): "No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main."
See also: island, man

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Ngawang-Tibetan, Bhutanese
KirKEERRussian
BraedenBRAY-dənEnglish (Modern)
FaeFAYEnglish
MÓRrÍGhan-Irish Mythology
Feivel-Yiddish