Quotes About Experience

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

No experience can ever be repeated, and in this fact we find all the tragedy of life and at the same time its glory—its irrepressible movement.

Life is the true revealer: I can never understand the whole by reason, only when the heart-beat of the whole throbs through me as the pulse of my own being.

the essence of experience, the law of relation, is reciprocal freeing: here is "the rock and the substance of the human spirit.

Time, on its own, heals nothing. ? Mary Rakow, The Memory Room . (Counterpoint, August 31, 2004) Originally published April 1st 2002.

At twenty-three, one is not frightened off a conversation merely by the fear of its becoming intense.

Fui felice di sfoggiare quel poco che sapevo; e poiché mi sentivo già a mio agio con lui, gli domandai perché mai un vecchio volesse frequentare la scuola. Non si risentì; rispose che per un vecchio non imparare ciò che avrebbe potuto renderlo migliore era assai più disonorevole che per i ragazzi, dato che aveva avuto tutto il tempo di comprenderne l'importanza".

I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy.

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

The effort to separate the physical experience of childbirth from the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of this event has served to disempower and violate women.

I like to read because it kills me.

In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again,

It looks like it's wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator — a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.

I do not think I really have anything to say about poetry other than remarking that it is a wandering little drift of unidentified sound, and trying to say more reminds me of following the sound of a thrush into the woods on a summer's eve - if you persist in following the thrush it will only recede deeper and deeper into the woods; you will never actually see the thrush (the hermit thrush is especially shy), but I suppose listening is a kind of knowledge, or as close as one can come." (viii)

Life is much, much more than is necessary and much, much more than any of us can bear, so we erase it or it erases us, we ourselves are an erasure of everything we have forgotten or don't know or haven't experiences, and on our deathbed, even that limited erased 'whole' becomes further diminished...

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Those with the deepest lows also have the loftiest highs.

Life does just go on, and you change, and you can't go back. You have to live it the way it comes.

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where we are, and what we need to do.