Quotes About Experience

And yet the experience happens anyway. Again and again I have seen people slip into this realm and light up with joy. The lack of language doesn't prevent them from experiencing it, only from grasping and making something of it.

Every love has its landscape.

the landscape never looks the same coming and going, so turn around periodically and look at the view you'll see coming back.

The surprises, liberations, and clarifications of travel can sometimes be garnered by going around the block as well as going around the world, and walking travels both near and far.

Lose the whole world, he asserts, get lost in it, and find your soul.

When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless. . . . Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. Her horizon seemed to her limitless.

They wanted to rock, they wanted to roll, they wanted to feel the peculiarly human feeling of having a perfect night in an imperfect world.

Life is short, but it is wide. Genevieve Whitman taught me that.

I live in an ocean of smell…

I wish I knew then what I know now - and still had those thighs!

Zip it kiddo. Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you later in life.

Books are living things with blood and bones, and it breaks our heart when people dissect them.

The notes danced through the June air; Vivi could feel them dust her hair and shoulders. She could feel the notes enter her and settle deep into her bones.

It's life, Sidda. You just climb on the beast and ride.

Every time I thought that I was put together, I realized that we're always putting ourselves together, gathering the world in, letting it sift down and form us.

Life is short, but wide.

Life is not a book. You can't just set it down on the coffee table and walk away from it when it gets boring or you get tired.

I don't care what the fire department says about fire hazards. I have lived through fire before.

sadness we did not have to work on. It came, as sadness usually does, as soon as I sat down and began to listen. The small press had a correspondingly

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. (pg. 174)

It was his hopeless hope that some time he would have an experience that would act on his life like alchemy, turning to gold all the dark metals of events, and from that revelation he would go on his way rich with an inextinguishable joy. There had been, of course, no chance of his ever getting it. Literally there wasn't room to swing a revelation in his crowded life.

It appeared possible that these other men were good fathers only because they knew too little of the world to grow frenzied against it.

In any class I feel at home, and I am never accepted, because of the traces I bear of my other origins. This does not, instance by instance, cause me any pain, but my experience of rejection has been an agony.

Literature is an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.