Quotes About Experience

Did you know you could kill a person with a hatpin?" she said. "I did not," he said. "Do you speak from experience? Have you murdered anybody? Not that I'd dream of criticizing.

She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black heart. But now she couldn't speak, because it was too much, whatever it was.

You shouldn't have married an elderly man." "Virgil was four and fifty when we wed," she [Daphne] said. "That is not exactly Methuselah." "How old were you?" "Nineteen and a half," she said. ""You'd have done better with two husbands of seven and twenty," he said.

He'd forget all that, just as he would forget this night. The memories would linger for a time, but they'd grow dull. The ache he felt now, the frustation and anger and sorrow - all those would fade too. She'd given him a night to remember, but of course he'd forget.

That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.

And I couldn't help but think about the time during the operation when there was nothing in my check: when they removed my heart, and before they put the other hear tin. When I was connected to the heart and lunch machine. When I was technically dead.... But I wasn't dead now...

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

She was so busy doing Christmas, there wasn't time to experience Christmas.

Losing somebody you love is such a profoundly lonely experience, something only you endure in your own particular way.

Well you seem like you're enjoying the experience of suffering, so I thought I'd help you out with that... There's a difference between pain and suffering,' Wendell says, 'You're going to have to feel pain- everyone feels pain at times- but you don't have to suffer so much. You're not choosing the pain, but you're choosing the suffering

Every laugh and good time that comes my way feels ten times better than before I knew such sadness.

She hadn't expected to experience this pleasure in her grief, to find it invigorating, in a way. But even as she's dying, she's realized, life goes on—even as the cancer invades her body, she still checks Twitter. At first she thought, Why would I waste even ten minutes of the time I have left checking Twitter? And then she thought, Why wouldn't I? I like Twitter!

Our younger selves think in terms of a beginning, middle, and some kind of resolution. But somewhere along the way—perhaps in that middle—we realize that everyone lives with things that may not get worked out. That the middle has to be the resolution, and how we make meaning of it becomes our task.

Take a risk. Maybe our pasts don't define us but inform us.

You want to mute the pain? You'll also mute the joy.

Maybe our pasts don't define us but inform us.

Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent.

There's a difference between pain and suffering,