Quotes About Experience

it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

It was making me think about human life in a way I didn't want to think about it. Human life, I realized, got progressively worse as you got older, by the sound of things.

I think intellectualism can be a barrier to reading. The point of a book - song, film, whatever - is to FEEL it. That's why we're here, no?

The text began to swirl and soon became indecipherable, in fast motion, as she felt herself weaken. She never knowingly let go of the #book, but there was a moment where she was no longer a person #reading it, and a consequent moment where there was no book--or library--at all.

This is what happens when you live on Earth. You crack. You hold reality in your hands until it burns and then you have to drop the plate.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

There are things I have experienced I will never again be able to experience for the first time: love, a kiss, Tchaikovsky, a Tahitian sunset, jazz, a hot dog, a Bloody Mary. That is the nature of things. History was - is - a one-day street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

You need to feel life's terror to feel its wonder.

Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people's lives.

You will never live if you're looking for the meaning of life.

This was jazz music. It was full of the complexity and contradictions that I would soon learn made humans human.

Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.

That is what the taste of blood does. It takes away the gap between thought and action.To think is to do. There is no unlived life inside you as the air speeds past your body, as you look down at the dreary villages and market towns...

The kind that could only be possible in someone who was going to die at some point in the future, and also someone who had lived enough to know that loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever.

By the time they [humans] had read enough books to actually reach a state of knowledge where they can do anything with it they are dead

It's okay to wear the scars of experience.

Andrea told me after that film that there was too much Matt Haig in Matt Haig. She was kind of joking but kind of on to something. So for me, anything that lessens that extreme sense of selfe, that makes me feel me but at a lower volume, is very welcome. (...) Travel has been one of those things.

There was more to her than a flat line of mild to moderate depression, spiced up with occasional flourishes of despair.

The fun is in the jumping, mon amie.' 'But what if it's in the landing?

Los momentos felices pueden provocar dolor si se les da tiempo.

We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. ... We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.

To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning.

The most painful moments in life expand us. And when the pain leaves, space remains. Space we can fill with life itself.