Quotes About Experience

Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?

A University degree, four books, and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'.

I wanted to give you advice. Adults are always doing that; it's one of their occupational hazards.

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.

la vida no se podía enseñar y cada uno tenía que aprender a vivirla.

Palabras que anulan, que hieren, que nos han marcado a ella y a mí y nos han ido envenenando.

Ya nunca será lo mismo para ti. Nunca volverás a ver con ojos inocentes o sin ambivalencia en la mente, como antes de este momento. Una parte de ti está ahora consagrada a todo lo que excluye ese simple gozo y exultación. Bienaventurado has sido de poseerlo durante un breve período...»

They tell me that you'll lose you mind when you grow older. What they don't say is that you won't miss it very much.

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.

All around these streets , the dead and forgotten - mostly travellers born three thousand miles away, and four hundred years once dreamed and schemed, full of sound and fury. They were real and vital, as yet undimmed by posterity, and lived and loved with every imaginable kind of human feeling until at last they returned to dust.

Life is a present but you must open it.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

hugged and kissed and touched and loved. He lived life large, never

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

All new news is old news happening to new people

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

The transition that we make with age reflects not only our growing experience and shifting philosophies, but also a changing willingness to engage in or condone violence. Young men are the revolutionaries, the superstar computer programmers, the best athletes, the most courageous soldiers, the bravest mountaineers, and the most creative musicians, but they are also the most vicious gang members and nearly all the suicidal terrorists.

One thing you learn in life is almost everything your grandmother told you when you were young, and which you thought at the time was just the lunacy of old age, is actually true.

His voice. Never had she heard anything like it, an undulating sound like fine gravel sifted through raw silk.

His eyes were a lot older than fifteen." Persephone Hadley(,regarding Callum McGregor)

His eyes were a lot older than fifteen.

He suddenly seemed so much older, not just in years but in the things he knew and had experienced.