Quotes About Experience

an inevitable truth of life: Not every foodie memory is a good foodie memory).

Canoeing, per se, isn't dangerous, but some canoeists are.

Delectable," Ulysses said. "Of all the drinks that I have drank on all the planets I have visited, the coffee is the best.

He stood quietly in the dark and silence, and the voice of a century of living seemed to speak to him in a silent language. All things are hard, it said. There is nothing easy.

It's lost time that matters, the time between time, the moments when you forget time and things just happen.

I was a stranger in the strange land of the rich and was coming to see that they do things differently there.

Anyone who lives sees, but he who moves sees more.

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.

Living in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he'd never felt more alive.

People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read.

Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.

What did it matter, anyway, he thought, whether this was a real place or a dream? It felt real, and that was all that mattered.

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

A sweet slip of a girl like you, why should you have to know anything about the sorrow of the world? You just believe me when I tell you... there's no way to live your life to the full and not have a reason to shed a tear now and again. It's not a bad feeling, child. That's what a lament does. It makes you feel happy to be sad, in a strange way. D'you see?

However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the sky was blue, the grass was green. What more did he need to know?

What did I see? It's no use telling you there are no words. Of course there are words; there are always words. The question is: can I wield them well enough to evoke the power of what I witnessed? That I doubt. But let me do my best.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke — Aye, and what then? —S. T. Coleridge, Anima Poetae

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke Ã¢â'¬â€œ Aye, and what then?' S. T. Coleridge Anima Poetae

If life was simpler we wouldn't get lost in it