William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

To me, the soul is a part of us that never dies. It's what we come in with.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Love is the one thing everyone is looking for, and death is the one thing everyone's running from.

In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The kingdom of heaven is within us, and the Lord is enshrined in the depths of our own consciousness. In this prayer we are calling deep into ourselves, appealing to the spark of the divine that is our real nature.

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.

Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.

The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God.

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.

I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.