Quotes About Experience

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.

I was just thrown out of the barista parlor. Came to close to the Slayer. Amazing place!

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

I've really enjoyed my three years at 'Hollyoaks.' I worked with the most amazing people.

There's such a history, and to be here, and to feel that, is really amazing.

As a big music fan, England is an amazing place to go.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

Cyber void is so full of amazing emptiness that makes us feel fulfilled.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

A lifetime's knowledge shimmers on the face of the land in the mind of a person who knows. The history of a place is the mind of an old man or an old woman who knows it.

I don't remember when I did not know Port William, the town and the neighborhood. My relation to that place, my being in it and my absences from it, is the story of my life. That story has surprised me almost every day—but now, in the year 1986, so near the end, it seems not surprising at all but only a little strange, as if it all has happened to somebody I don't yet quite know. Certainly, all of it has happened to somebody younger.

This is the story of my life, that while I lived it weighed upon me and pressed against me and filled all my senses to overflowing and now is like a dream dreamed.

What you are doing is exploring. You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place... nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes a common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.