Quotes About Experience

People are allowed to feel horny and fucked-up at the same time.

we are what's happened to us.

She understood Paul from the inside out, two kids, nine or ten parents' evenings, eleven or twelve Christmases, eight or nine holidays in France, five seasons of The Wire, however many hundred fucks and takeaways. (Could it be thousands? Four figures if you added the fucks and the takeaways together, probably, although there was no earthly reason why you would.)

Látod? Te nem lennél képes megváltoztatni mindent, ahogy Jackie. Túl sokszor megtörtént már mindkettÅ'nkkel; egyszer?en csak visszamegyünk a régi barátainkhoz és a régi kocsmákba, abba a régi életünkbe, amelyikben még nem ismertük egymást, és ennyi az egész. Senki még csak észre sem fog venni semmilyen változást, nem igaz?

Tapi, ini adalah hal paling mengerikan yang pernah ia lihat bahkan dari kejauhan sekalipun, dan ia menyadarinya pada momen ketika ia berjalan masuk, hal itu adalah sesuatu yang akan terus terngiang di benaknya, selamanya.

la musica sentimentale ha un grande potere: ti riporta indietro nel momento stesso in cui ti porta avanti, così che provi, contemporaneamente, nostalgia e speranza.

It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the film of your life story. Of course. Isn't that how it works for everybody?

What came first, the music or the misery?

I've never done anything like this before." "None of us had, until we did

Qué fue primero: la música o la tristeza? ¿Me dio por escuchar música porque estaba triste? ¿O es que estaba triste porque escuchaba música?

Hay gente que nunca fue más allá de los sesenta, o que no fue más allá de la guerra, o no más allá de aquella noche en que el grupo en el que tocaban actuaron como teloneros de los Rolling Stones en el Marquee, y luego se han pasado el resto de la vida caminando para atrás; yo nunca llegué a ir más allá de Charlie. Fue con ella cuando me ocurrió lo más importante, las cosas que aún me definen.

It happened and I wish it didn't, it's just life isn't it

Maybe the best thing to do with favorite films and books is to leave them be: to achieve such an exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be re-created.

Maybe the best thing to do with favourite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.

I've spent nearly thirty years listening to people sing about broken hearts, has it helped me any? Has it fuck.

and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...

I fell in love when I was twenty-six. Love in my interpretation comes once in a lifetime.

BUT, alas, the heart forgets; the heart is distracted; and Maytime passes; summer ends; the storms break over the rot-ripe orchards and the heart grows old; while the hours, the days, the months, and the years pile up and pile up, till the mind becomes too crowded, too confused: dust gathers in it; cobwebs multiply; the walls darken and fall into ruin and decay; the memory perishes...

and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...

Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

é que os homens, com satisfação, mudam de senhor pensando melhorar e esta crença faz com que lancem mão de armas contra o senhor atual, no que se enganam porque, pela própria experiência, percebem mais tarde ter piorado a situação.

I remember unloading guns beneath a complex heaven

Memory is a funny thing. Makes you remember things that didn't really happen and forget things that did. I'm so scared I'll forget because if I forget all these things that happened then there will be no one on earth who remembers them. And if they're forgotten it's like they never happened. No one can prove it. Some writer said that people become our memories of them. So I guess if no one remembers you, then you weren't really here. - almost him