Christina Rossetti quotes

" And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. " # Death and Dying # Love # Life and Living

" I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and turn away. " # Facts # Love # Work

" Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. " # Wind # Love # Age and Aging

" Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. " # Death and Dying # Action # Life and Living

" Obedience is the fruit of faith. " # Dedication # Faith # Obedience

" I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on... " # Dreams # Thoughts and Thinking # Death and Dying

" 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. " # Family # Friends and Friendship # Weather

" Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth... " # Hope # Arts and Artists # Kindness

" Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. " # Love

" She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. " # Nuns # Beauty # Youth