Quotes About Experience

Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Each man's memory is his private literature, and every recollection affects us with something of the penetrative force that belongs to the work of art.

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.

Well! well! It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. But it's hard. Hard.

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Music is what life sounds like.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it...

Over time, the hurt doesn't hurt — only regret does.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. And nothing is more desolating than a thorough knowledge of the private self.

A photograph is memory in the raw.

You don't need a camera all the time — the soul, heart, eyes, spirit, and all your other senses capture moments beautifully too.

When you leave New York, you are merely camping out.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. The world is a match for us. We are a match for the world.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Poetry touches upon the entire spectrum, from lost to found — and sometimes back again.

Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass.

A man's life is often builded on a proverb.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book, & ransack every page.

Quotations can be a comedy or a drama, tell of the whole world or just a small piece of it.

The contemporary listener new to old time radio is in for a real treat... when played back it begins its magic and the listener becomes absorbed by the program and spellbound by the power of the imagination. For those listeners who have experienced this often enough, it is almost second nature to describe radio as the "theater of the mind."

A man is getting old w'en he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

The best way to live your life is to go to the other side of the rainbow young, but at a very old age.

Theories are great, they sound great, but the minute you are asked to prove one in actual life, why the thing blows up.