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Quotes About Experience

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.
~ Bethenny Frankel
I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
~ Bob Dylan
I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
~ Bob Uecker
After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
~ Brittany Snow
Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
~ Carl Jung
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
~ S. E. Hinton
I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to school high.
~ Sheek Louch
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
~ Solomon Ortiz
Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
~ Stephen Sondheim
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
~ Steve Jobs
One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.
~ Sydney Pollack
If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible drama of life is happening. And we're in it!
~ Sylvia Boorstein
I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
~ Sylvia Plath
I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
~ Sylvia Plath
Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.
~ Ursula Andress
Just look at me now - I've never been so happy in my life!
~ Vera-Ellen
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
~ Dorothy Parker
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
~ Frederik Pohl
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
~ Michael Ende