Quotes About Experience

As it is, the town is hell's delight.

The Bangkok Comfort Zone - that strip running between Patpong, Soi Cowboy and Nana - was a huge bank of ice, thick as a glacier. Only you had to be around years and years to see and feel the deep chill, and by the time you had it was too late, the glacier had already dragged you under.

imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.

Le temps est un grand professeur, mais malheureusement il tue ses élèves.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

We planned this beautiful, totally natural, unmedicated delivery. What kind of stupid-ass idea is that? Next time I want the epidural at the moment of conception. Numb for nine months.

We are multiple beings having a dubious experience

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

The experience profoundly changed my perspective. In the hospital, I hadn't perceived the anxiety and foreboding that permeated birth until I experienced the impact of its absence among the midwives. The peace, wonder, and intimacy were infinitely greater. What a compelling difference!

Y Lif era lo suficientemente razonable como para reconocer que las batallas y las acciones heroicas de las que hablaban las leyendas estaban compuestas de sangre y dolor y sufrimiento verdaderos, y solo resultaban fascinantes mientras no tuviera que experimentarlas en la vida real.

Das Lieben. Das Lieben is schoen. Schoener als das Singen. Das Lieben hat zwei Personen. Das ist beim Lieben der Kummer.

La plus grande chute est celle qu'on fait du haut de l'innocence.

Wohin ich dich auch führen werde, es wird das Leben sein.

Alguien que lo mire desde fuera -todo el mundo es mirado desde fuera por los demás- siente siempre una cosa mejor o peor que aquel que conoce el asunto, trátese de felicidad o de desgracia, penas de amor o "decadencia artística".

Es gibt ein Mittel gegen die Einsamkeit, die einen plötzlich in einer fremden Stadt überfällt: etwas kaufen: eine Ansichtskarte, einen Kaugummi nur, einen Bleistift oder Zigaretten: etwas in die Hand bekommen, teilnehmen am Leben dieser Stadt, indem man etwas kauft [...]

Yes, we had made and excursion into another world and we had come back, but we had brought the joy of life and of humanity back with us. In the rush and whirl of everyday things, we so often live alongside one another without making any mutual contact. We had learned on the North Fae of the Eiger that men are good, and the earth on which we were born is good."(p.126)

They were nice, friendly people, and they invited us to share their fire and drink a cup of rancid butter tea with them.

shall always remember the next day for one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had. As we marched forward we caught sight, after a while, of the gleaming golden towers of a monastery in the far distance. Above them, shining superbly in the morning sun, were tremendous walls of ice, and we gradually realised that we were looking at the giant trio Dhaulagiri, Annapurna and Manaslu. As

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

The aesthetical imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act