Quotes About Experience

Estoy intentando pensar como los ancianos que están más tristes que yo

Quizá la juventud sea terrible para un anciano.

Timpul se scurge la fel pentru toti, dar fiecare curge diferit in timp.

In the spray the girl stood naked. The facts were different, but in the course of time Eguchi's mind had made them so. As he grew old, the hills of Kyoto and the trunks of the red pines in gentle clusters could sometimes bring the girl back to Eguchi; but memories as vivid as tonight's were rare. Was it the youth of the sleeping girl that invited them?

La profondità dell'essere umano è proporzionale alle esperienze vissute e alla lontananza del tempo in cui il suo animo si immerge.

It was a triviality, but the girl whose breast had been wet with blood had taught him that a man's lips could draw blood from almost any part of a woman's body; and, although afterwards Eguchi had avoided going to that extreme, the memory, the gift from a woman bringing strength to a man's whole life, was still with him, a full sixty-seven years old.

In fondo, per 'aprire gli occhi', basta vivere a lungo.»

el tiempo se divide en muchas corrientes. Como en un río, hay una corriente central rápida en algunos sectores y lenta, hasta inmóvil, en otros. El tiempo cósmico es igual para todos, pero el tiempo humano difiere con cada persona. El tiempo corre de la misma manera para todos los seres humanos; pero todo ser humano flota de distinta manera en el tiempo (…) Las corrientes del tiempo nunca son iguales para dos personas, ni siquiera cuando son amantes...

Look, just as time isn't inside clocks love isn't inside bodies: bodies only tell the love.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

I've never been in those places where I've never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.

Pero una vez que has tocado el amor verdadero —una vez que has tocado la verdad— dejas de necesitar un sistema como la religión para que te lleve hasta allí.

In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.

As soon as the knowledge of the Reality has sprung up, there can be no fruits of past actions to be experienced, owing to the unreality of the body, in the same way as there can be no dream after waking.

Your master will bestow that experience shortly. Your body is not tuned just yet. As a small lamp cannot withstand excessive electrical voltage, so your nerves are unready for the cosmic current. If I gave you the infinite ecstasy right now, you would burn as if every cell were on fire.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

I want to see a doctor, I said. He beamed. But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea. I want to see a less capable doctor.

Looking back now, I see that we made all the classic mistakes of a growing company.

Some people might be born with a predisposition to better judgment, but the rest of us, I believe, have to grow wiser by hard work.

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.

Philosophy is listening to warbling posh boys, it is being more bored than you have ever been in your life, more bored than you thought it possible to be.

Like most children, theirs was a relation based on verbs, not nouns.