Quotes About Experience

I have nothing against old people. I want to be one myself one day.

You think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Making love to him was like going through a car wash, except you came out dirtier and more alive at the other end.

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

Experience and disappointments had made us methodical.

The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.

Reading Dostoyevsky is like sitting in the front row of a theater, where the actors' spit lands on your face.

As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch.

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

And that's the whole point. The mind, Doctor. It's everything. If you think you have a pain in your arm and there's no physical reason for it, you don't hurt any less.

Not all people are affected the same way by the same events. We are each our own fingerprints and the sum of our own life's experiences.

It was a problem that needed squaring away and I squared it away for them. By now it seemed like it was something I was doing all my life. If you count my father sending me out to beat up other boys so he could win beer bets, maybe it was. Evidently

To help me understand his combat days, Sheeran tracked down the 45th Infantry Division's hardbound, 202-page official Combat Report, issued within months of World War II's end. The more I learned from both this report and Frank himself, the clearer it seemed to me that it was during his prolonged and unremitting combat duty that Frank Sheeran learned to kill in cold blood. The

But back then we had to amuse ourselves, and fighting seemed to be all we had. Looking back, it was good for us. You got a lot out of your system. And you learned a lot. And then when our country needed soldiers we were in shape. We already had a mental toughness. I graduated from the eighth grade

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Bobby handed me a Columbian and I took a hit.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.