Quotes About Experience

Are there not books that make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?

And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.' 'Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry?' asked the duchess after a pause. 'Especially when one has been wounded by it,' answered Lord Henry.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. 

Let those who have not walked as we have done, In the red fire of passion, those whose lives Are dull and colourless, in a word let those, If any such there be, who have not loved, Cast stones against you

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Debe la alegría vestirse con lo que fabrico el Dolor?

Lo menos frecuente en este mundo es vivir. La mayoría de la gente existe, eso es todo.

To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough – more than enough, I should imagine.

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

It was only in the theatre that I lived.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

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.

I am not sorry for anything that has happened. It has taught me to know myself better.

Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing....

Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then

I have known everything, said Lord Henry, with a tired look in his eyes, but I am always ready for a new emotion.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. (...) Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures

Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.

And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.

No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.