Quotes About Experience

Most of us can only see the world we know.

en la escuela siempre

I don't care about the facts, Domino, I care about how I feel. How I feel will change, I want to remember that.

What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events? How much of recollection is invention? Whose invention?

Our memories change as we do.

We get somewhere we couldn't go otherwise and we profit from the trip, but we can't stay there, it isn't our world, and we shouldn't let that world come crashing down into the one we can inhabit.

el amor deja una herida que a su vez deja una cicatriz.

Yes, the past is another country, but once that we can visit and once there we can bring back the things we need.

It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving.

The midgets acted all of the tragedies and many of the comedies. They acted them all at once, and it was fortunate that Tetrahedron had so many faces, otherwise he might have died of fatigue. They acted them all at once, and the emperor, walking round his theatre, could see them all at once, if he wished. Round and round he walked, and so learned a very valuable thing: that no emotion is the final one.

HE: History has no smell. ME: Is that why we are nostalgic for it? HE: Breathe in, breathe out. The past doesn't stink like the present.

Bombay. Cairo. Paris. New York. I've been to those places now. The curious thing is that no matter how different they are, people are all preoccupied with the same things, that is, the same thing; how to live. We have to eat, we want to make money, but in every pause the question returns: How shall I live?

I have learned what love costs. I never count it but I know what it costs.

No one else was there, with the weather like this. If I still lived there, I'd be indoors too. It's a visitor's privilege to be foolish.

Biz hissedecek ÅŸekilde tasarlar?mlan?p inÅŸa edildik, dolay?s?yla hiçbir zihinsel halimiz, hiçbir düÅŸüncemiz yoktur ki ayn? zamanda bir duygu durumu olmas?n. Hiçbirimiz a??r?, kald?rabileceÄŸimizden fazla hissetmeyiz, ancak baz?lar?m?z mümkün olduÄŸunca az hissedebilmek için elinden geleni yapar.

Time is a great deadener. People forget, get bored, grow old, go away.

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher.

The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.

Fictional characters are the original avatars for writer and reader alike. In this place of freedom we can choose who we want to be. And we can find a spectrum of feeling, experience, sexuality, even anger or murder, not available in daily life.

Writers always put themselves into their work. But you can't just untangle it and take it back to its source.

Hay quien se cría en una colina y quien se cría en el valle. La mayoria lo hace en el llano. Yo vine a la vida inclinada, y así es como he vivido desde entonces.

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living.

Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.