Quotes About Experience

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.

Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

Canoe + waterfall = I don't go camping anymore.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

After making love I said to my girl, "Was it good for you too?" And she said, "I don't think this was good for anybody."

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.