Quotes About Experience

It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful.

I wouldn't think of leaving college. It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them.

It is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before.

There was suddenly no question on his mind, no eternal problem for a solution and resolution. He had experienced an emotion that was neither mental nor physical, nor merely a mixture of the two, and the love of life absorbed him for the present to the exclusion of all else. He was content to let the experiment remain isolated and unique.

Sometimes she speaks of 'the past' as people speak who have been in prison. But you never know whether they refer to the crime or the imprisonment or the whole experience.

He was enough older than Nicole to take pleasure in her youthful vanities and delights, the way she paused fractionally in front of the hall mirror on leaving the restaurant, so that the incorruptible quicksilver could give her back to herself.

Age will go     Back to the old—       For all our tears         We shall not know.

I'm not sure what I'll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.

Everything was hallowed by the haze of his own youth.

Atingi a maturidade com a impressão de estar acumulando experiência para organizar minha vida com vistas a ser feliz. Na verdade, consegui o feito nada comum de resolver cada problema na minha cabeça muito antes de ele se apresentar na vida, ficando perplexo e derrotado assim mesmo.

For him time stood still and then every few years accelerated in a rush, like the quick re-wind of a film, but for Nicole the years slipped away by clock and calendar and birthday, with the added poignance of her perishable beauty.

Oh, many things. I've led a very active life. Knocked about here and there. (His tone implies anything front lion-stalking to organized crime.)

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood--she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

I possess the most valuable experience, the experience of the race, for in spite of going to college I've managed to pick up a good education.

He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.

There's only one lesson to be learned from life, anyway, interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement. What's that? demanded Maury sharply. That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

I'm half French, and I was educated in England and since I was eighteen I've worn the uniforms of eight countries.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart

Es invariablemente triste mirar con nuevos ojos las cosas en las que uno ha gastado su propio poder de adaptación.

We're getting old,' said Daisy. 'If we were young we'd rise and dance.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. Q.—Where

I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously