Quotes About Experience

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

I pay very little regard, said Mrs. Grant, to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

A man who had felt less, might.

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

Neither the dissipations of the past--and she had lived very much in the world, nor the restrictions of the present; neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits.

Ha de aprender mi filosofía. Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero.

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted. -- Jane Austen's Letters August 1796

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

There will be nothing singular in his case; and it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

Shvatila je što je ljubav kad je postala starija - prirodni slijed neprirodnog po?etka.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.

In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world.

but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering—which was by no means the case

I am glad I have done being in love with him.

All the overpowering, blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.

Ha de aprender mi filosofía. Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero. –No

Pese a esta experiencia creía que iba a tener que pasar por una nueva y necesaria lección en el arte de aprender lo poca cosa que somos fuera de nuestro propio círculo.

I love to be reminded of the past, Edward – whether it be melancholy or gay, I love to recall it.

The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; - Elizabeth Bennet (Volume 2, chapter 1)

Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.