Quotes About Experience

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

A burnt child loves the fire.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

I'm too old to know everything

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

What is done is done. What is past is past. You call yesterday the past? What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play— I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.