Quotes About Experience

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.

The detail, the immensity of the detail, the force of the detail, the weight of the detail—the rich endlessness of detail surrounding you in your young life like the six feet of dirt that'll be packed on your grave when you're dead.

Tu?i già không ph?i là má»™t tr?n chi?n; tu?i già là má»™t cuá»™c th?m sát

Los recuerdos del pasado no son recuerdos de los hechos, sino recuerdos de tu imaginación de los hechos

That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.

Nulla, nulla viene mai detto una volta sola - nulla!

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.

You have the body of an old man, the life of an old man, the past of an old man, and the instinctive force of a two-year-old.

But he was in his fifties and there I always question how hard can they get. With a younger guy you know it's an easier thing. With an older one you don't know.

This is aging, pure and simple, the self-destroying hilarity of the last roller coaster.

La vida es un breve periodo de tiempo durante el que estamos vivos.

self-laceration is never more than a memory away