No man is an island

Cultural  

1. No one is self-sufficient; everyone relies on others. This saying comes from a sermon by the seventeenth-century English author John Donne.

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no man is an island Idioms  

1. 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.”

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Example Sentences

"It can be straining, it can be frustrating, but we need it. No man is an island. We have to help each other however we can."

From BBC

An old saying goes: "No man is an island", but in the case of Simon Parker, you might just disagree.

From BBC

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own or of thy friend’s were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

From Los Angeles Times

That suggests — no, proposes overtly — that going it alone, “American-style,” isn’t always plausible and that, as the poet John Donne put it so many centuries ago, “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”

From Seattle Times

The poet John Donne wrote that “no man is an island entire of itself.”

From Washington Times