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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
My brain cells are dying in their trillions.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.