Quotes About Experience

You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.

opinions are there to be changed as we grow older and wiser". Mats

If joy could express itself with the same force as pain," he said.

Era la padronanza di sé che pietrificava e allarmava Pablo più di tutto, perché veniva dalla giovinezza e dalla bellezza, come quella che un tempo aveva conosciuto anche lui, e proprio per questo sapeva che non avrebbe conosciuto mai più.

Sex, my darling, is often the least important part of a passion. You'll learn that when you get older. - Maria Luisa (Tushi) Strauss

You never feel more American than when you leave America.

David Lebovitz

David Lebovitz

David Lebovitz

the Marché d'Aligre, which I think is the most exciting market in Paris.

When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

The message of the Bible is timeless and supernatural. If you're a believer, how many times have you listened to a sermon in church only to wonder how the pastor knew exactly what you were experiencing, as if he were talking to you and no one else in the congregation? Yet talk to your fellow congregants and you'll often find they had the exact same feeling. What he was saying to them, however, may be slightly or greatly different than what you heard as applying to yourself.

Yeah, there's stuff that really good fiction can do that other forms of art can't do as well. And the big thing, the big thing seems to be, sort of leapin' over that wall of self, and portraying inner experience. And setting up, I think, a kind of intimate conversation between two consciences.

It is not all pleasure this exploration.

To not risk is to not learn. Or to state this more positively; risk taking can make one open to learning and can ensure that this learning is retained.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.

Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. We know we won't find it at home any more, but there's always the hope that we'll find it abroad

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.

I am immeasurably, unbearably happy. I am three years old. I am sixty. I am six. I am there.