Quotes About Experience

MISS PRISM Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.

But a chance 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.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Aber das ist das Problem mit dem Alter: Man hat ein Gefühl, aber kein Datum. Und wenn man das Datum ausgräbt, verliert man das Gefühl.

The only interesting thing is to live.

A book is completed only when its finished by a reader.

The only interesting thing, said François Mitterrand, is to live.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant.

roads were made for journeys not destinations

You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath

At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand.

Give me a few more years so that I am studying at fifty, and surely I may avoid major errors.

I was not born with wisdom. I love the ancient teachings and have worked hard to attain to their level.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

I love you," she whispered, gazing up into his pale gray eyes. He smiled crookedly, for a moment looking at her with a dazzled air. He had, she realized sadly, no experience hearing those words. He didn't know how to react. "I figured as much." This time, she didn't hit him.

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.