Quotes About Experience

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the absurd, mechanically persistent involvement with recorded music is the pursuit of that priceless moment. So it's not exactly that records might unhinge the mind, but rather that if anything is going to drive you up the wall it might as well be a record.

I was then a young and omniscient student (alas, I was soon to lose both these virtues).

A arte de sofrer é inconsciente... E é preciso fingir que se vive, é preciso.

A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl.

Hope and experience take two different sides of an argument.

The power of young Joy, like that of young Love, does not travel far on the dusty road of life in general.

There are in existence two periods when we shrink from any great vicissitude—early youth and old age. In the middle of life, we are indifferent to change ; for we have discovered that nothing is, in the end, so good or so bad as it at first appeared.

Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.

Believe God's Word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your

Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn't be unread.

What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?

When she looked back the whole thing had a queer, unreal feeling to it, but then again you often get a queer, unreal feeling when you stay up till four and get up at seven.

They went around the room telling stories about how they'd gotten here. No two were exactly the same, but there was always a certain family resemblance. Somebody went looking for a lost ball in an alley, or a stray goat in a drainage ditch, or fallowed an inexplicable extra cable in the high school computer room which led to a server closet that had never been there before.

Free Trader Beowulf—you had to be at least forty and a recovering pen-and-paper role-playing-gamer to get the reference, but it was apt. Google it.

Age is wasted on the young. Just like youth.

Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either.

You need to do more than memorize, Quentin. You must learn the principles of magic with more than your head. You must learn them with your bones, with your blood, your liver, your heart, your deek." He grabbed his crotch through his dressing gown and gave it a shake.

Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it. Maybe it was all a game, that got crumpled up and thrown away at the end, but while you were here it was real.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect. To

He just stared at his lap and waited for each successive second to impose itself on him in turn like an uninvited guest the way the previous one had.

That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn't be unread. But