Quotes About Experience

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.

I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be said

Love is one of those jokes you have to be there to get.

Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that youve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved

She said I bet you dont remember me And I said only every other memory.

If young love is just a game then I must have missed the kickoff

What is Love? Alright. You know how when you're listening to music from another room, and you're singing along, because it's a tune you really love, when the door closes, or a train passes, and you can't hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway?

Heartsick, heartbroken To know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular That with it we probe the divine.

Every love's the love before in a duller dress

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.