Quotes About Experience

Extraño desacostumbrarme de la hora en que nací. Extraño no ejercer más oficio de recién llegada.»

La risa? ¡Qué cosa extraña! Es un temblor alegre que corre por dentro, como las ardillas por un árbol hueco. Pero luego restalla en la cintura, y hace aflojar las rodillas…

Las novelas nunca las han escrito mas que los que son incapaces de vivirlas.

Todo viajero es la mitad de sí mismo. No hay lugar en los aviones para llevar las cosas que lo completan. Esquinas, gestos, personas, vientos, olores, tapiales, saludos, colores y miradas no caben en las valijas.

Uno no encontrará en sitio alguno nada que no haya llevado consigo. Para comprender que uno es un tonto no es necesario trasladarse a Katmandú.

Life is a play. What matters is not that it lasts a long time but that it be well-acted.

When you find love, real love, it's like a catastrophe, like a tsunami. Like an earthquake, because all your individuality, all what you believed you are, it's breaking. And you are completely another person. You never know what you were. And it's a catastrophe –– but a good catastrophe, not a bad catastrophe.

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

todos hemos sido algo que muchas veces explica lo que somos ahora

No hay amaneceres violetas sin ojos que los reflejen, ni largos caminos sin pies que los recorran

Quiero que recuerdes una cosa, y que se la recuerdes a ella si en algún momento las cosas no van bien. Grábatela en la cabeza, Fer. Te ayudará ahora y si llegas a viejo entenderás que tengo razón, porque solo los supervivientes entendemos que la vida no es lo que es, sino lo que sentimos al recordarla.

Si en estos países se moría por pasiones que me fueran incomprensibles, no por ello era la muerte menos muerte.

Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.

I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take. It seems to me that when people take a picture of something, they instantly forget about it. They can look at the picture and remind themselves.

You've never been married, so you don't know, but it is a fragile thing. Nothing ever goes away, everything stays inside it. It is a different reality.

Uskoro je povjerovao da to što on piše nije poezija, nego nešto drugo, nešto dublje i teže opisivo; nešto što izražava njegov doživljaj života: napeto srce, suze skrivene u o?ima, osloba?aju?e bezna?e. Te su pjesme bile blues, utvrdio je Mirza, a u to nema sumnje...

Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips—once it's smoked it cannot be unsmoked.

He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it.

You can experience and understand history only when you're inside it, but when you're inside it you don't have time or gumption for understanding. All you want is just to stay alive, for which understanding is not necessary. You have no access to history's complex, catastrophic logic, which is indelibly overwhelming and incomprehensible, particularly as you're trying to survive.

Art extends each man's short time on earth by carrying from man to man the whole complexity of other men's lifelong experience, with all its burdens, colors and flavor.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.

Il soggiorno veronese è davvero il primo momento in cui Dante dovette rendersi conto di ...come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.