Quotes About Experience

I tasted, sensed, wanted beauty.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear." From the book An Experiment in Love.

I didn't want to die, ever. I wanted to watch a million suns set, love a million women, walk down a million city streets and lonely roads. A thousand lifetimes wouldn't be enough for that. Sometimes, convinced I had come down with some fatal illness, I was afraid I wouldn't even have one.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.

La ocasión en fugaz la experiencia insegura y el juicio difícil

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you.

Don't judge me unless you have looked through my eyes, experienced what I went through and cried as many tears as me. Until then back-off, cause you have no idea.

If what you buy is good, what you make will be good regardless of the presentation. We may eat with our eyes, but we enjoy with our taste buds.

Do you remember how many breads you have eaten in your life?

This story is the tale of me starting to walk. Not in the physical sense… but in an adolescence to adulthood sort of way…

No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.

I kind of feel like I know the reason that I was born. After 58 years of life, I know why I turned out this way. I know why I treasure life so much. I know why I cannot overlook wickedness. All of these things I experienced weren't for nothing. It was for this moment, right now, that I was born. I became a machine for this moment.

You can never love the same way twice

The sun is nearly audible.

Anyway, the point is that you guys really need to get out more.

Han hade en gång förlorat "sitt första hjärta", som det heter.

Livet är inrättat för de gamla, därför är det en olycka att vara ung. Det är inrättat för de tanklösa och slöa, för dem som ta falskt för äkta eller till och med föredrar det falska, därför är det en sjukdom att tänka och känna, en barnsjukdom som man måste gå igenom innan man blir man...

Hur var det möjligt att han, Martin Birck, som ännu inte hade fyllt sexton år och låg i en liten järnsäng i sina föräldrars hem, kunde tänka annorlunda om de högsta och viktigaste tingen än de gamla och erfarna, och att han kunde ha rätt och de orätt?

No man is ever old enough to know better.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.