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Top 20 Francis Thompson Quotes (2025 Update)

Francis Thompson Quote: “All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.”

1. “All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.”

— Francis Thompson

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

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

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.”

3. “There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “The devil doesn’t know how to sing, only how to howl.”

4. “The devil doesn’t know how to sing, only how to howl.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.”

5. “Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose’s scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.”

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

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.”

7. “Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.”

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

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.”

9. “An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”

10. “Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”

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Francis Thompson Quote: “Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.”

11. “Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “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?”

12. “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?”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.”

13. “Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.”

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Francis Thompson Quote: “My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.”

14. “My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.”

15. “Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.”

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

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.”

18. “But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.”

19. “A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.”

— Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson Quote: “Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what’s more, they’re also growing quickly and so they’re absorbing lots more into the body and they’re more fragile in terms of development and so on.”

20. “Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what’s more, they’re also growing quickly and so they’re absorbing lots more into the body and they’re more fragile in terms of development and so on.”

— Francis Thompson

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