Top 60 Christina Rossetti Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.”

— Christina Rossetti

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2. “Obedience is the fruit of faith.”

— Christina Rossetti

3. “Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.”

— Christina Rossetti

4. “Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.”

— Christina Rossetti

5. “Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”

— Christina Rossetti

6. “Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.”

— Christina Rossetti

7. “Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.”

— Christina Rossetti

8. “Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.”

— Christina Rossetti

9. “Silence is more musical than any song.”

— Christina Rossetti

10. “The downhill path is easy, but there’s no turning back...”

— Christina Rossetti

11. “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?”

— Christina Rossetti

12. “One day in the country Is worth a month in town.”

— Christina Rossetti

13. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.”

— Christina Rossetti

14. “What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.”

— Christina Rossetti

15. “For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.”

— Christina Rossetti

16. “Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream’s sake.”

— Christina Rossetti

17. “O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: – the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.”

— Christina Rossetti

18. “Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.”

— Christina Rossetti

19. “What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.”

— Christina Rossetti

20. “Flowers preach to us if we will hear.”

— Christina Rossetti

21. “Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago.”

— Christina Rossetti

22. “And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.”

— Christina Rossetti

23. “My heart is like a singing bird.”

— Christina Rossetti

24. “Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.”

— Christina Rossetti

25. “Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.”

— Christina Rossetti

26. “Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.”

— Christina Rossetti

27. “For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”

— Christina Rossetti

28. “A pin has a head, but has no hair.”

— Christina Rossetti

29. “Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief: – We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.”

— Christina Rossetti

30. “Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.”

— Christina Rossetti

31. “Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.”

— Christina Rossetti

32. “Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.”

— Christina Rossetti

33. “Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.”

— Christina Rossetti

34. “All things that pass Are wisdom’s looking-glass.”

— Christina Rossetti

35. “Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.”

— Christina Rossetti

36. “Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration.”

— Christina Rossetti

37. “O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.”

— Christina Rossetti

38. “Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.”

— Christina Rossetti

39. “My heart is breaking for a little love.”

— Christina Rossetti

40. “The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.”

— Christina Rossetti

41. “It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.”

— Christina Rossetti

42. “She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth.”

— Christina Rossetti

43. “All earth’s full rivers can not fill the sea that drinking thirsteth still.”

— Christina Rossetti

44. “Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.”

— Christina Rossetti

45. “Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.”

— Christina Rossetti

46. “Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.”

— Christina Rossetti

47. “O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.”

— Christina Rossetti

48. “For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.”

— Christina Rossetti

49. “Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth’s full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.”

— Christina Rossetti

50. “Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.”

— Christina Rossetti