Quotes About Experience

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

Tess, you need to forget what you don't remember and focus on what you do. You guys had, like, the epic summer. You'll never forget it. Hell, I won't forget it and I was just a jealous bystander.

On peut être avec quelqu'un pour fuir sa solitude, on peut partager son quotidien pour digérer une rupture en continuant d'entretenir le souvenir d'un autre. On peut parler à quelqu'un en écoutant la voix d'un autre, regarder quelqu'un dans les yeux en voyant ceux d'un autre.

Les parents ont tout oublié, ce n'est pas de leur faute, ils ont juste vieilli.

Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.

When an old person dies, it's as though a library has burnt to the ground.

Keira avait raison, le plus petit détail réveille la douleur

they spent the night together, so I suppose it was

Elle lui expliqua que les adultes avaient peur de toutes sortes de choses, peur de vieillir, peur de mourir, peur de ce qu'ils n'ont pas vécu, peur de la maladie, parfois même du regard des enfants, peur qu'on les juge.

I don't know if I am romanticizing, mythologizing, or being nostalgic. I assume all three. That seems to be how the brain breaks things down after a certain age. I

There are some things you can't un-fuck.

was seated at the front of coach in an aisle seat, directly behind the first-class dividing wall and the flight attendant service area. It's my favorite seat on a plane. I like watching people get on the plane so I can judge them. I like judging. I didn't see any real problems among the passengers who awkwardly clumped onto the plane, but I definitely felt like I was in a better place than some of them, which helped take the edge off my mood. Judging works.

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.

and he was now almost seventy years old.

immersing people from the surrounding countryside in the River Glen every day from sunrise until sunset.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Shapiro

getting things wrong is part of a music critic's life … That's probably the most crucial advice I could give a young critic—plan on getting a lot of things wrong.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sorrow.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.