Quotes About Experience

it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be.

to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world

Lo único que realmente demuestra es que nuestro futuro será igual a nuestro pasado, y que el pecado que hemos cometido una vez, y con amargura, lo repetiremos muchas veces, y con alegría.

I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic and critical temperament. It makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

He who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

that is one of the great secrets of life. Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to

Stop, Basil! I won't hear it! cried Dorian, leaping to his feet. You must not tell me about things. 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.

I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Puede recordar usted algún gran error que haya cometido en su juventud, duquesa? -preguntó mirándola- Me temo que de una gran cantidad de ellos -exclamó ella. Entonces cométalos otra vez -dijo él gravemente-. Volver a la juventud es solamente repetir sus locuras.

Sometimes we can spend years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single moment .

the remembrance even of joy having its bitterness, and the memories of pleasure their pain.

La tragedia de la vejez no consiste en ser viejo, sino en haber sido joven.

They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences.

The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

Ones own soul, and the passions of one's friends—those were the fascinating things in life.

Because now you are young and beautiful and the whole world loves you. But, some day, you will be old and wrinkled and no-one will give you a second glance. It is a sad fact, but when youth goes, beauty goes with it. If you want my advice, go out and live. Live each day to the full and enjoy all of life's pleasures.

You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been hidden from you. And it has all been to you no more than the sound of music. It has not marred you.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Was verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.

Ah! this morning! You have lived since then!