Multiple Lives Quotes

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

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.

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.

Maybe not this year or the next but one day they'd end up married. In this lifetime and every one after it. Just knowing that I'd get to watch them find each other and fall in love in every life made me smile.

They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.

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.

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

I forget that I can play guitar and that I can perform very well. It's like having an alternative life.

You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.