Quotes About Experience

Have you traveled through time?" "Yes," Worf said, "but I do not recommend it.

It doesn't matter what planet you're on, there's nothing like biting into a crisp Fuji apple first thing in the morning.

The best sleep imaginable is sleeping in your dreams

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

It's only life. We all get through it.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

Like me, you are human, after all, and we know what a joy and terror that is.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk, Milo said, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

So I drifted. Winds and currents decided where I went. Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals—I travelled down the road of life—and I did other things with my fingers than try to measure latitude.

Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?

There are two ways that you can learn about the world. You can travel or you can read.

You will always see less as you grow older, otherwise you would not want to go on.

If you haven't lost your mind yet, that's because you haven't seen very much.

Getting old," I said with some restraint, "means to be done with compassion.

Les émotions sont effrayantes.

Los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas.

Qué eran, para un hombre de sesenta y siete años junto a una muchacha de una sola noche, la inteligencia, la cultura, la barbarie?

Two middle-aged American couples came back from the dining car and, as soon as they could see Mt. Fuji, past Numazu, stood at the windows eagerly taking photographs. By the time Fuji was completely visible, down to the fields at its base, they seemed tired of photographing and had turned their backs to it. The

The course of one's life is a difficult thing. -from Diary of My Sixteenth Year

Eguchi sintió una oleada de compasión por ella. Se le ocurrió una idea: los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas.