Quotes About Experience

There's data in the world available only to those who have reached a certain level of wretchedness. You dont know what's down there if you havent been down there.

I suppose in the end what we have to offer is only what we've lost.

the sun rose and the river ran as before but nothing was the same nor did he think it ever would be.

Dont you just love the taste of ozone? Like a fucking zinc milkshake.

while one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor.

The old man swung his head back and forth. The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world but he didn't make it to suit everybody, did he? I don't believe he much had me in mind. Aye, said the old man. But where does a man come by his notions. What world's he seen that he liked better?

He said that far from making men reflective or wise it was his experience that death often leads them to attribute great consequence to trivial things.

We dont move through the days, Squire. They move through us. Until the last cruel crank of the ratchet.

Los recuerdos de los hombres son inciertos y el pasado que fue difiere muy poco del pasado que no fue.

Such as. Do you ever think what it would be like to meet a person you've known for a long time for the first time in these later years? To meet them anew. You're thinking they would be a much different person to you if you didnt know their history. Yes. How would it differ from when you first met them? That's not it. We're talking about them as they are now. Only with a past unknown to us.

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. By

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life hidden from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

You dont want to be the youngest. I can tell you right now. There aint no percentage in it. They

That's pretty much gone. I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human. I want to be as old as I can be.

John Grady, de pie ante la ventana del café vacío, observando las actividades de la plaza, dijo que era bueno que Dios ocultase las verdades de la vida a los jóvenes cuando empezaban pues de otro modo no tendrían ánimos para empezar.

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not -Judge Holden

place of being except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times. Twice in this house.

I've heard of some that was supposed to be better and I'm sure there were some better. I just never did see any of em.

In talking to older people who've had good lives, inevitably half of them will say, 'The most significant thing in my life is that I've been extraordinarily lucky.' And when you hear that you know you're hearing the truth. It doesn't diminish their talent or industry. You can have all that and fail.

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

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good the God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.