Quotes About Experience

However, I reasoned, perhaps she had not experienced miracles before.

We write to taste life twice," Anaïs Nin said, "in the moment and in retrospection.

Maga nije bila kadra vjerovati u imena, morala je stvar dotaknuti prstom i tek bi je tada prihva?ala.

Te concedo que mi manera de sentirla o de entenderla es diferente de la de Babs, y que la realidad de Babs difiere de la de Ossip y así sucesivamente. Pero es como las distintas opiniones sobre la Gioconda o sobre la ensalada de escarola. La realidad está ahí y nosotras en ella, entendiéndola a nuestra manera pero en ella.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

Some things belong only to the people who lived them.

If I'm not willing to feel the pain of life, how can I ever expect to feel the joy

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;They lift their heavy lids, and look;And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,They read with joy, then shut the book.

There are few things more frustrating than being forced to sit through a bad film with someone who thinks it's a masterpiece.

In a world where everything is available online, the idea of sitting down with a book may seem archaic. But there's still something about holding a physical object in your hand, turning the pages and smelling the ink that can't be replicated on a screen.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

The life of an animal lies outside of conjecture. It is far beyond the scientific papers and the campfire stories. It is as true as breath. It is important as the words of children.

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

The truth is that Leon, like a lot of those-maybe everyone-who trips on acid, never really came back. he recovered but he was never the same guy again. He had lost something-innocence of hell. Acid presses a little button in your mind that should never be pressed

I don't know why I was so afraid of failure; the most interesting people I know have failed more than they have succeeded. This may be because life is not as simple as it appears to a desperately ambitious young man, or it could be that all my friends are losers.

Behind every great story there's always another story.

I knew we'd been out there on the water a long time when the sun began its colorful descent to meet the horizon.

Don't you think scars make better stories than tattoos?

Makes you feel better when you shoot people . . . You ought to try it sometime.

I've done some crazy things in my life, but asking women their age isn't one of them.

In my life, I have been kicked by horses and bitten by them. I've been stepped on, crushed against gates, and thrown to the ground, but I have also been nuzzled, rubbed against, carried by, nickered at, and warmed by the great beasts. I thought of all the horses I'd known and couldn't think of a bad one.

I have gotten to the age where I try and let other people solve their own problems." "What age is that, anyway?

He studied me. "You were in Nam?" I nodded. "Yep." He turned to Lolo. "Hey, Chief, how many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" She stared at him. "I don't know." He pointed his cigar at her in an agitated fashion. "That's right, because you weren't there, man!" We