Quote by Francis Thompson
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that t

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

Other quotes by Francis Thompson

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

Category:
power
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Mothers
category

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Mothers

Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. – T. DeWitt Talmage

Category:
Mothers

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “where mother is.” – Keith L. Brooks

Category:
Mothers

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. – Victor Hugo

Category:
Mothers

Random Quotes

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. – Margaret Mead

Category:
Feminism

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. – Sir Thomas Browne

Category:
Stubbornness

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering. – Theodore Roosevelt

Category:
Death

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life. – Juliette Binoche

Category:
movies