William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Faith, Dying, Difficult

  The History of Henry Esmond bk. 1, ch. 6 (1852)

• Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Death, Im Sorry, Dying

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

• 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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