Quotes About Experience

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . . A load of bullshit.

She remembered the anti-philosophy of Mrs Elm in the Midnight Library. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

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 as though she had reached some state of acceptance about life – that if there was a bad experience, there wouldn't only be bad experiences.

was as though she had reached some state of acceptance about life – that if there was a bad experience, there wouldn't only be bad experiences. She realised that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.

if books had to replicate our exact experience of the world to be useful, the only books worth reading would be written by ourselves.

Sometimes regrets are just....a load of bullshit

Per goderci la vita forse dovremmo smettere di pensare a quello che non riusciremo mai a leggere, guardare, dire e fare, e iniziare a pensare a come goderci il mondo all'interno dei nostri limiti. A come vivere in una dimensione umana.

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live." "Sounds hard.

I don't know for sure that the words I write were the words that were actually spoken. They probably weren't. But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

You don't have to be an academic. You don't have to be anything. Don't force it. Feel your way, and don't stop feeling your way until something fits. Maybe nothing will. Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it's one with something to look at out of the window.

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.

just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.

I was a human being with human illnesses, which other humans have had—millions and millions of humans—and most of them had either overcome their illnesses or had somehow managed to live with them.

There was no way of living that could immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness.

she had reached some state of acceptance about life – that if there was a bad experience, there wouldn't only be bad experiences. She realised that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery

One of the key symptoms of depression is to see no hope. No future. Far from the tunnel having light at the end of it, it seems like it is blocked at both ends, and you are inside it. So if I could have only known the future, that there woudl be one far brighter than anything I'd experienced, then one end of that tunnel would have been blown to peices, and I could have faced the light.

sometimes the only way to learn is to live.' 'Sounds hard.

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.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he

To learn is to live

I had a feeling of dizziness caused by that rare sense that things were moving fast, not just in my life but in the world. I had been in New York for a few hours now, and the feeling had not waned.

and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.