Quotes About Experience

Her hayat birçok günden oluÅŸur, gün günü izler. Biz kendi hayat?m?z?n içinden yürüyüp geçeriz, yolda kar??m?za h?rs?zlar, hayaletler, devler, yaÅŸl?lar, gençler, zevceler, dullar, a??k biraderler ç?kar. Ama illa ki kendimizle kar??la??r?z her seferinde.

the foreign warmth of the skin

You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.

She bows her old head to a voice that

Don't know what poetry is even. Must be in a certain mood.

Beauty of music you must hear twice.

Flying a helicopter is like flying a magic carpet. It's the most fun in all aviation.

he began to taste the joy of his loneliness.

They lived and laughed and loved and left." ?James Joyce

He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and tasting its mortifying flavor in secret

Folk take a battering but, they do; they get born and they get brought up and they get fuckt. That's the story; the cot to the fucking funeral pyre.

James Kelman

If man had the wisdom of age in youth and the vitality of youth in age, then he would be an eternally wise young man. (Feb 2003)

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.

We are the sum total of what we have done and where we have been, and I sincerely believe that in many ways the world in which I grew up was better than the one in which we live today.

It is the kind of sobbing you only hear from a woman, because it comes from pain that men do not have to bear; it's the pain of labor; it's the pain of rejection and betrayal; it is a form of rage so great there is no receptacle big enough in which to confine it. And worst of all, it cannot be described or understood by those who have not experienced it themselves.

If age brings either wisdom or answers to ancient questions, it has made an exception for me.

He had learned in Vietnam there were three groups of people who got you killed—pencil pushers, amateurs, and idealists.

Edwin Arlington Robinson once wrote that God slays Himself with every leaf that flies. I think the same is true of us. I think we cannot understand ourselves until we understand that living is a form of dying. My generation was born during the Great Depression and, for good or bad, will probably be the last generation to remember traditional America. Our deaths may be inconsequential; the fling we had was not.

We are the sum total of what we have done and where we have been

We all know that the survivors of war rarely speak of their experience. We tell ourselves they do not want to relive the horror of the battlefield. I think the greater reason for their reticence lies in their charity, because they know that the average person cannot deal with the images of a straw village worked over by a Gatling gun or Zippo-tracks, or women and children

He knows things don't happen in order, like past, present, and future.

I hope you enjoy Wayfaring Stranger. It's the best book and the most biographical one I have written.