Quotes About Experience

every person's biggest trauma is still that person's biggest trauma. There is no relativity within the realm of one's own subconscious.

don't we all have moments of madness?

La peur est tellement envahissante, tellement omniprésente, qu'elle en devient presque normale. Il n'en demeure pas moins que vivre sous l'emprise de la peur, même quand elle ne vous quitte jamais, est une expérience éprouvante [...].

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

Like, even if something dramatic or terrible in your life doesn't happen, just the act of growing older is like a massive trauma anyway.

And when you provide love and compassion to your brothers and sisters, you yourself, are manifesting God. When you come to understand that our bodies are nurtured by food and rest, but our spirits and souls are nurtured by experiencing love and compassion, then you come to understand and know God.

I've got some words of wisdom.

I know it's just a game. But so is life. And how we play the game has something to do with how we live our life.

I wish we all didn't have a story. –Karen

My journey was like the one in the book. That is the thing about books. You take their journeys with you. You came home with something more than just the remains of a fish. The book was never about the fish.

And I am ashamed to write here that I felt more alive than ever, even though my heart was broken glass in my chest.

In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel.

I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she'll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

could never get anything going in Toronto, never even got one gig with a band. So I moved instead towards acoustic music and immediately became very introspective and musically inward. That's the beginning of that whole side of my music.

The rigours of experience were beating relentlessly against his muse and Brian Wilson could no longer snugly dream on like before.

now I'm synthesizing personal experience with observation. As opposed to just projecting feelings on to someone you barely know or chasing some illusion. Now, I'm more into observing illusions taking their toll on other people. I feel pretty good about life these days.

all this vital music pouring out of him, all this new-found acceptance coming his way as well as money and acclaim, and all the guy wanted to do was sleep through the whole experience.

Looking back on my childhood now, there's a sort of glow to my reminiscences. It's like my memory has blocked out most of the bad stuff.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer.'1