Quotes About Experience

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

There were other sorts of Christmases besides the one he had made a habit of. And it might do him good to have a change, to see how it was with other people.

When you talked you involved other people . . . you crept back out of the unbearable loneliness of experience.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

when I slip into the past, I become it.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

the words of Anthony Eden, Britain's wartime foreign secretary: "If one hasn't been through the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does which has been through all that.

Hemingway said, 'As you get older, it is harder to have heroes.'

It almost feels like I've suffered in order to be able to see what I otherwise wouldn't.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.

the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself

For most of us church folks, the norm has been defined by what we have or haven't experienced up to this point. Another way of saying this is we've allowed our experience to define normal. What we experience determines what is normal; what we consider to be normal is authoritative, and thus our experience becomes our authority. What we have or haven't experienced sets the bar for what we do and don't expect from God.

There is absolutely no biblical expectation of a gospel without power, of a religion without spiritual experience, of doctrine and morals without divine en­counter.