Top 80 A Thousand Lives Quotes
#1. Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.
Arlaina Tibensky
#2. Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!
Richard Bach
#3. I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange--not if I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable and painting the house-front with Hindley's blood.
Emily Bronte
#4. A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
Stephen King
#5. My love, I'd volunteer to live a thousand lives if I got to spend any part of them with you.
Debra Anastasia
#6. Oh, that I had a thousand lives and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals.
Robert Moffat
#7. One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
Subhas Chandra Bose
#9. The real world dissolved and I was free to drift in fantasy, living a thousand lives, each one more powerful, more accessible, and more real than my own
Frank Conroy
#10. The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives.
Jacob Bronowski
#11. A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.
Laura Vazquez
#12. I would burn a thousand villages, sacrifice a thousand lives to keep you safe.
Leigh Bardugo
#14. It has often been said that we have but one life to live; that is nonsense. If one reads fiction he or she can live a thousand lives, in many parts of the world or in outer space.
Louis L'Amour
#15. To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#16. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other ... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.
Nicholas Sparks
#17. I lived a thousand lives to escape from real life, because real life is boring and shitty.
Staci Hart
#18. I've lived a thousand lives just by reading a book
Alice Kuipers
#19. The reader lives a thousand lives, while the non-reader only lives one.
Anonymous
#20. While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
Elizur Wright
#21. I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.
George R R Martin
#22. A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile
Charles Spurgeon
#23. If I were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one of them.
Michelle Hodkin
#24. We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.
Eugene O'Neill
#25. Is there a word for when you are young and pretending to have lived and loved a thousand lives? Is there a German word for that? Let's say its schaufenfrieglasploit.
Amy Poehler
#26. If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.
Michelle Hodkin
#27. I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to ... China!
Lottie Moon
#28. Give me a thousand lives and a thousand eternities, and I would still find you and make you mine. Always.
Mia Asher
#30. There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.
Shia Labeouf
#31. I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#32. I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.
Robert Cormier
#33. Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#34. If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour?
James Hudson Taylor
#35. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
George R R Martin
#36. You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books.
Stephenie Meyer
#37. And on and on it goes, in a thousand directions, everything occurring at once, in a great storm of the present, of now - all those lovely wrecked lives.
Jess Walter
#38. A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.
Parul Wadhwa
#39. It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.
Frederick Lenz
#40. The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
Alan W. Watts
#41. All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
Meher Baba
#42. If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
Meister Eckhart
#43. Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.
Daniel Keyes
#44. Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard Bach
#45. Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
Bill Gates
#46. If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.
Grace Paley
#47. The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.
Rumi
#48. I am in fact, a sad little girl, still in love with my first boyfriend, who lives five and a half thousand miles away and can't be mine.
Kerry Heavens
#49. Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
Edward Abbey
#50. But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.
Gordon Korman
#51. As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#52. He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when their last breath is drawn, without anyone to inherit them.
Stefan Zweig
#53. A cozy home is not just a sixty-five thousand dollar house bought from Bank of America. A cozy home is a total consciousness of the two individuals within the framework of the home, and in relationship to the entire surrounding of this planet and beyond this planet. God lives in cozy homes.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#54. When searching out a history, sifting through a thousand facts and ten thousand lives, one often uncovers pieces that do not fit.
Julie Berry
#55. Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.
Peter Piot
#56. when I die, do not waste a minute mouring me. I may go, but I will leave behind all my thousand & one lives - a bookmad girl never dies.
Amanda Lovelace
#57. One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.
Jeff Goodell
#58. I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?
Lawrence Lessig
#59. The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives.
Eknath Easwaran
#60. In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.
Foster Friess
#61. If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
Anne Lamott
#62. For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him
Oswald Chambers
#63. One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
Robert McNamara
#64. What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?
Horace
#65. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Francis Pharcellus Church
#66. love.
love isn't having butterflies all the time, i think love is calm. love is comfortable. i could sit in silence with you for the rest of our lives and it would mean more than a thousand words with anyone else.
F.R. Media
#67. The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
Francois Fenelon
#68. We see men and women who work as hard as they possibly can and still fall behind a little more every month. We see lives that look nothing like those lived by billionaires in eighteen-thousand-square-foot condos, because these people don't live in some fairy tale - they live in today's reality. *
Elizabeth Warren
#69. I want a thousand things for my children, and I ask without hesitation, but I want nothing more than that God would be glorified. Life is just a breath. All that will matter forever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through their lives and ours.
Beth Moore
#70. Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated.
David Guterson
#71. I was convinced we had lived twenty thousand lives, and in each one, we had found each other, like two tiny magnets in a drawer the size of the universe.
Renee Carlino
#72. We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
Herman Melville
#73. School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.
Sarah Dessen
#74. The light has gone out of our lives ... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light ... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it ... For that light represented the living truth.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#75. There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.
Katherine Dunn
#76. In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again,
Mary Ruefle
#77. If I could sprinkle some hopes over all of you, they would include these: I hope you each find a meatball in the spaghetti of your life; I hope your talcum powder never empties, that your spirit is like a cork and that you all live a thousand, thousand lives. Huzzah!
Sharon Creech
#78. To be able to experience a thousand different lives within my lifetime is something that always appealed to me. I wasn't content with just being one person for the rest of my life.
Douglas Booth
#79. But the ensemble's greatest legacy can be found in the lives it saved during the Holocaust. By helping the musicians as well as their family members immigrate to Palestine, Huberman saved an estimated one thousand lives between 1935 and 1939. The
James A. Grymes
#80. The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.
David Attenborough
