Quotes About Experience

But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age.

You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.

I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.

I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I'm sophisticated! (Daisy)

I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

I'd rather keep it as a beautiful memory-- tucked away in my heart.' 'Yes, women can do that-- but not men. I'd remember always, not the beauty of it while it lasted, but just the bitterness, the long bitterness.' 'Don't!

I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon…

Each life unfulfilled, you see,       It hangs still, patchy and scrappy;     We have not sighed deep, laughed free,       Starved, feasted, despaired—been happy. But his life

There's only one lesson to be learned from life anyway.... That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

I suppose all great happiness is a little sad.

He was thinking that the young years behind him, hollow and colourful, had been lived in facile and vacillating cynicism upon the recorded emotions of men long dust.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

I've found that I can always do the things that people do in books. Really they are the only things I can do.

For this is wisdom—to love and live,     To take what fate or the gods may give,     To ask no question, to make no prayer,     To kiss the lips and caress the hair,     Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow,     To have and to hold, and, in time—let go.

We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives-experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded in just that way ever before.

The span of his seventy-five years had acted as a magic bellows—the first quarter-century had blown him full with life, and the last had sucked it all back.

All life was transmitted into terms of their love, all experience, all desires, all ambitions, were nullified - their senses of humour crawled into corners to sleep;

I talk with the authority of failure.

She had been kissed once and made love to six times.

he was learning the rarity in a single life, of encountering true emotion.

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