No man is an island (entire of itself) In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "no man is an island (entire of itself)", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Tommy Tran calendar 2021-02-05 02:02

Meaning of No man is an island (entire of itself)

No man is an island (entire of itself) quote

Nobody is completely independent; everybody is a part of the society and must depend on others to thrive.

As soon as I tried to do everything on my own, I realized that no man is an island.

You know you can't finish the project all alone, right? Remember, no man is an island!

No man is an island, so you should let somebody help you sometimes.

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be/live in each other's pockets

To spend a great deal of time together

in tandem
together; at the same time
live under the same roof

To live in the same home together. 

love will (always) find a way

People who are in love will overcome any difficulty to be together. (Sometimes used ironically to imply that someone is in love with something he or she is attempting to be near).

Origin of No man is an island (entire of itself)

John Donne. (Image Source: UQA)

The expression was from the sermon Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Seuerall Steps in my Sicknes - Meditation XVII - one of a series of essays written by the English poet John Donne when he was seriously ill in the winter of 1623.

"No man is an island,
entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main."

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