Quotes About Experience

It is surely better to have had such a love and lost it than never to have known the joy of it at all.

a small, spare, gray-haired man whose face had the calm acceptance of one whose spirit has remained whole through a lifetime of trials.

To know, according to Wisdom, does not mean "to think", but to be the thing known: to live it, to realise it inwardly. One does not really know a thing unless one can actively transform one's consciousness into it.

di lahat ng payo makakabuti para sa 'tin dahil di man lahat ng naranasan ng iba..ay kagaya ng eksaktong nararanasan ng bawat isa.

I know of few greater pleasures than holding a lacquer soup bowl in my hands, feeling upon my palms the weight of the liquid and its mild warmth. The sensation is something like that of holding a plump newborn baby.

We must make language accountable to the truths of our experience.

My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.

Sem educação, o mundo dos camponeses era dolorosamente estreito. Suas conversas em geral se concentravam em detalhes miúdos do dia-a-dia.

It is hard for one who has not had a similar experience to imagine the terror that still gripped Taeko and Mrs. Tamaki and Hiroshi, so intense a terror that afterwards it seemed almost funny.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

It's as though your life, on some measures, is validated by the amount of fucking and heartbreaking you have been involved in and also by the number of breasts and clitorises and cocks and inner thighs and mouths you have travelled intimately.

Zachary me enjabonó entre las piernas explorándome como si fuera la primera vez, como si no me conociera de memoria. Yo alargué la mano hacia atrás. Él dijo Lacey anne. Le encanta susurrar mi nombre cuando lo tengo dentro, y esa es la única ocasión en la que disfruto de verdad al oírlo, porque es como si todas las cosas de mí misma que me gustan y todas las que detesto confluyeran, en cierto modo, y me siento desnuda y plena, nombrada y encontrada.

When I looked at you from a distance you would smile invitingly, but when I approached, the smile would change into mist and obstruct my view. ... It may be that someone else's tenderness can be experienced only as pain.

Dar chiar ÅŸi cu bilete dus-întors, dac? punctul de plecare era diferit, destinaÅ£ia era, fireÅŸte, ÅŸi ea diferit?. Åži n-ar fi deloc straniu dac? biletul lui de întoarcere ar fi de fapt biletul ei de plecare.

Ceea ce simÅ£ea pentru ea era una, iar ceea ce îi f?cuse ea era altceva.

After we're done, I want you to forget the whole thing … that we ever even met." "That's all right by me. Anyway, it doesn't look like something I'll want to remember.

it's probably a good thing to go to the movies occasionally. The whole audience puts on the actor's face. No one needs his own. A movie's a place where you pay your money to exchange faces for a while.

just as, in the dark, one sees only darkness whether one keeps his eyes open or shut, looks right or left.

Well, let's go out! Let's go into a new world, someone else's world, through someone else's face.

A movie's a place where you pay your money to exchange faces for a while [page 88].

In her elementary school days, she'd experienced something so terrifying that it was too much to remember.

No one deserves good or evil fortune, said Lady Beatrice. Things simply happen and one survives them the best one can.

Jolly felt salty tears on her lips, and for the first time in her life it occurred to her that sorrow tasted exactly like the sea.