Quotes About Experience

He came out of his first long meeting with Trump thinking it had been a disconcertingly weird experience. Trump talked nonstop and constantly repeated himself.

Travel was wonderful, travel was glorious. See the USA in your Chevrolet! But

Yet the sameness is also a trap. It's part of the narrowing of your world, the tunnel vision of age. When something different happens to you, it's hard to see it as a good thing. Which means you can't always recognize a perfect moment or get yourself to a place where one can happen. Or sometimes perfect moments happen and you don't even realize it. That is why you need to travel.

men are as vulnerable to joy as they are to suffering.

La lectura, y sobre todo la lectura novelesca, es un tipo de sueño; un sueño que no realizamos dormidos sino en un estado particular que no corresponde enteramente a estar despierto.

Toute expérience poétique engage au moins trois termes : un sujet, un monde, un langage».

Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

My trade and art is to live.

My trade and my art is living.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

We used to go to the sea to discover the world: now we go to the sea to discover ourselves.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Peter..." She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. "Let's not go there." "That's what people always say about places where they already are.

Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience, conduit rapidement à une destruction, pour soi-même comme pour les autres, de toute raison de vivre comme de tout futur possible, et vous plonge dans un ennui pesant qui finit par se transformer en une amertume atroce, accompagnée de haine et de rancoeur à l'égard de ceux qui appartiennent encore à la vie.

All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.

Il est probablement impossible, pour des gens ayant vécu et prospéré dans un système social donné, d'imaginer le point de vue de ceux qui, n'ayant jamais rien eu à attendre de ce système, envisagent sa destruction sans frayeur particulière.

A whore can always turn herself into a good little cook over time.

Life begins at fifty, that's true, inasmuch as it ends at forty.