Quotes About Experience

Any great "experience"—irrespective of how much bliss it may bestow—remains for some time, and then leaves.

Tommy Tedesco.

What's more, when we recount an experience to someone, the act of recounting it changes the memory of it. So if we reshape the story a bit each time—omitting inconvenient facts, exaggerating convenient ones—we can, over time, transform our actual belief about what happened. Which presumably makes it easier to convince others that our story is true.

that the stories we tell about things, and thus the beliefs we have about their history and their nature, shape our experience of them, and thus our sense of their essence.

WRITER: But tell me before you go. What was the worst thing about being down here? AGNES: Just existing. Knowing my sight was blurred by my eyes, my hearing dulled by my ears, and my bright thought trapped in the grey maze of a brain. Have you seen a brain?

A sound by itself is a passive, not an active, thing, neither pleasant nor unpleasant. So to make it unpleasant, you have to go out and, in a sense, do something to it.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

Porque si la poesía te transporta al cielo, la novela policiaca te introduce en la vida tal como es, te ensucia las manos y tizna el rostro como el carbón al fogonero de los trenes del sur.

Por definición, los recuerdos son una versión personal, libre y subjetiva de un individuo, y no postulan jamás a ser la historia oficial. Tienen la modestia de las manos callosas, la singularidad de un rostro, la limitación de una forma particular de sentir.

Sí, lo entiendo, y pienso que cada uno tiene que conocer en la vida muchas tristezas. Lo notable es que cada tristeza es distinta de la otra, porque cada una de ellas se refiere a una alegría que no podemos tener. Usted me habla de catástrofes presentes, y yo me acuerdo de sufrimientos pasados; tengo la sensación de que me arrancaron el alma con una tenaza, la pusieron sobre un yunque y descargaron tantos martillazos, hasta dejármela aplastada por completo.

Entonces repetí palabras que antes habían tenido un sentido pálido en mi experiencia. "Sufrirás", me decía, "sufrirás... sufrirás...sufrirás..." "Sufrirás... sufrirás..." "Sufrirás...", y la palabra se me caía de los labios. Así maduré todo el invierno infernal.

cada uno tiene que conocer en la vida muchas tristezas. Lo notable es que cada tristeza es distinta de la otra, porque cada una de ellas se refiere a una alegría que no podemos tener.

Nunca entres al restaurante de un chino. Será un misterio para ti lo que te dé de comer.

El primer mensual que cobré lo gasté en un montón de libros que hablaban de la mala vida. Me equivoqué, porque casi todos eran libros pornográficos… estúpidos… ésa no era la mala vida, sino la mala vida del placer… Y, quiere creerme, ninguna de mis amigas sabía explicarme, en substancia, lo que era la mala vida.

Erdosain was standing stock still, but his mind raced off on a minute-long journey like someone floating through a dream landscape—the kind of experience that afterwards seems to prove life is shot through with a prescient fatalism.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world

Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.

That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.' It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

Le daría el consejo que nos dábamos los jóvenes infrarrealistas en México. Cuando teníamos 20, 21 años, teníamos un grupo poético, y éramos jóvenes, mal educados y valientes. Nos decíamos: vivir mucho, leer mucho y follar mucho".

Cuando uno sabe, sabe, y cuando no sabe lo mejor es aprender. Y, mientras tanto, no decir nada, a menos que los que uno diga esté encaminado a hacer más claro el aprendizaje. Su vida misma, según explicaba, había sido un aprendizaje constante.