Quotes About Experience

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.

I was deeply loved. And scarred. Which is a pretty good trade-off in my holiday book.

Man, moreover, possesses the capacity for thought. This uniquely human capacity is the greatest means of experiencing the highest form of pleasure. Thinking provides a limitless treasure house of pleasure for man. The act of thinking, which is seldom outwardly manifested, gives man the keenest sense of pleasure, which is just not realizable by any other means.

West harkens back to the halcyon days when there was "a vital community bound by its ethical ideals."56 Unfortunately, oppression does not always produce such felicitous outcomes, and the victims of oppression are not always ennobled by their experience and an inspiration to the rest of us.

Ek umar guzar gayi ghar ke jhagdho mein Phir duniya ne bhi jeena muhaal kar diya

Breasts and bosoms I have known Of varied shapes and sizes From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprises.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives...

Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

In reading poetry, we learn to read either in the light of timelessness or in the light of social justice or injustice as experienced by once generation.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

You can sum me up in about ten words: a former student of English literature who—who—who went downhill from there! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons.

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

It reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonable well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.