Quotes About Experience

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?

...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

The adventure of life is to learn.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.