Quotes About Experience

Without awe, life is flatline.

I met a woman around the corner from the hotel who owns a bar on Essex. We talked for awhile. She used to see Johnny Thunders play whenever she could. She said that sometimes he was too messed up to do the show and the venue would kick him out. She and her friends would sit with him outside and he would play for them. Can you imagine?! That's a quintessential NYC experience. It's what makes this city so great.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Unuttuklar?n?z için harcad???n?z uzun saatlere de üzülmemelisiniz, çünkü yitirilen bilginin gölgesi sizi en az?ndan birçok yan?lsamadan korur. (William Johnson Cory)

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Many people have grown up attending church and hearing about God all their lives, but they do not have a personal, dynamic, growing relationship with God.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

People still talk of getting religion, as though it were a peculiar kind of coin, alone receivable at the heavenly toll-gate; of experiencing religion, as though it were experiencing an electric shock; of an interest in Christ, as a shareholder does of his stock in some prosperous venture.

We know how much corn they [i.e., the enslaved people on Hairston plantations] ate, but do not know how they felt to see the sun rise.

Youth is the one worthwhile treasure in this world, no matter how miserable the rest of life might be.

I still seem to hear Sniatynski's words: "Do not philosophize her away, as you have philosophized away your abilities and your thirty-five years of life." I know it leads to nothing, I know it is wrong, but I do not know how not to think. 13

I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.