Quotes About Experience

Du bist kein Sammler mehr, nur noch ein Besitzer, und das macht überhaupt nicht so viel Spaß.«

Just think, never to be glad nor disappointed. Never to like anyone and get crossed at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a belly-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink a beer and have a bad conscience... How terrible.

Yes, you're right. One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey

I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. - An Eightieth Birthday

the thought occurred to him that life was like a river. Some people sailed on it slowly, some quickly, and some capsized. (Hemulen)

But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

I is for me. I cannot believe how much I have fucked up in love. At least, physically. I don't believe I have mentally. For some weird reason, all of my tiny horrors have been liveable. I have not died. In fact, life has become better. Through age and experience there has come realisation: life is worth living.

Was Frank right that she needed to experience what normal felt like? Or would she always be the princess in the tower who could never find the stairs?

I'd rather go through life feeling everything in all its intensity than feeling nothing whatsoever." Faith

He'd already gone beyond what he planned for their first true meeting, forgetting himself long enough to trade innuendos a more experienced woman would have recognized for what they were. Instead, Grace Danvers had blushed and looked unsure, of both herself and her reactions. In those moments, he'd found her adorable. And kissable. And far too innocent.

There are some days that prove that it's a man's world and we women are only here as visitors.

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

This is why I love poems: they invite me to sit down and listen to a voice speaking thoughtfully and passionately about what it feels like to be alive.

These and other tools help poems call our attention to moments when the ordinary nature of experience changes--when the things we think we know flare into brighter colors, starker contrasts, strange and intoxicating possibilities.

What does living do to any of us?

Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear . . .

Well, I don't live in New York and I don't pretend to understand the way the theater works there.

I went to the University of South Florida for five and a half years. Then I sobered up, got dressed, and went home. They still have my earrings.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

Intelligence is your ability to learn, and it's the same at age 15 as it is at age 50.

Closing your eyes and thinking of emotionally arousing events is simply training for the real thing—spotting the physical signs of your emotions on the fly.

There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.