English

Proverb

no man is an island

1. All people are connected to other people and dependent on other people.
   • 1623, John Donne, “Meditation XVII”, in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions:

     No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. […] any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, […]