William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Ambition, Names

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

• Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Destiny, Soul, Training

• [As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Soul, Devil

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.331

• He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Brother, Thinking, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.618, Delphi Classics

• Life is the soul's nursery.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Soul, Life Is, Nursery

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.275

• If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom--whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Faithful, Soul

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Newcomes: Thackeray Collections”, p.446, 谷月社

• If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Two

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.133

• To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1925). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself”

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