Quotes About Experience

I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die... Life is how the time goes by

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

You need to know that even as life develops in superficially disappointing ways, there is still fun to be had.

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

I've watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.

I like exploring life and its complexities.

Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

I have always been astonished by hate. Revenge and hate. That is such strange human elements. I have seen a lot of that in my life. I am just as surprised each time. By revenge and hate.

I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Don't analyze, celebrate it.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.