42 Quotes by Francis Thompson

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.