Quotes About Experience

It had great joy and great sadness and the ability to accept both and be content.

She consulted the yellowing Rolodex in her head.

you don't get to be old without knowing grief. And loss.

I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Living our lives was like living in a long house. We entered as babies at one end, and we exited when our time came. And in between we moved through this one, great, long room. Everyone we ever met, and every thought and action lived in that room with us. Until we made peace with the less agreeable parts of our past they'd continue to heckle us from way down the long house. And sometimes the really loud, obnoxious ones told us

He wondered if those who'd experienced death recognized the boatman.

she'd forgotten snow could be quite so beautiful. Snow, in her experience, was something that needed to be removed. It was a chore that fell from the sky. But

This village was old, and you don't get to be old without knowing grief. And loss.

She coughed, and Reine-Marie stopped where she was. And had to remind herself that a cough was no longer a threat. A sneeze wasn't an attack. The vaccine had worked. It was one of the great global shared experiences. The plague and the cure. But still, she had to force herself forward, to stand beside the young woman with the sniffles.

As much as Gabri liked to refer to the elderly poet as the Labrador on the leg of life, she was indeed trained.

Really? You have that ability, Chief Inspector? To just forget? Lucky you." They held each other's eyes. No one with gray in their hair got there without things they'd prefer to forget. But could not.

wrote that we can create situations in which we are happy, but we cannot create joy. It just happens.

The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life. The

Our New Year "Let's go down the disco" experience, with the aid of Charlie Horse and Teddy as partners, was actually quite good fun on the funosity scale.

Louise Shaffer

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.

In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror--indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.

I think you have to get better, as you get older. Or, your perspective gets better, even if the work doesn't seem any better. When I was writing songs when I was 17, I was trying to write from a more experienced point of view. As you get older, you're not writing from an imagined point of view. You guess less.

I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

Anything that makes the show unique is something I enjoy. If people blow their horns from their boats at Humphreys, or someone yells out something, that says to the audience: 'This is only happening right now. This is only happening tonight.' That's a good thing, no matter what it is.

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

I write from emotion. It's important to remember that even though one may be writing about something totally out of one's experience, one should insert a thread of familiar emotion through it. I often start out with the main character's state of mind in my stories because it sets the tone to the whole book.