Quotes About Experience

Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for those who have been there.

We are not just humans having a God experience. The Eucharist tells us that, in some mysterious way, we are God having a human experience!

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

You get more misanthropic every day. - I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

Maybe this was the unstated purpose of education, to get young people to see the world through the tired eyes of age: disappointment and exhaustion and defeat masquerading as wisdom.

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities.

No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.

Over graduation weekend Jacy learned something about loneliness that she hadn't suspected before: that its most terrifying and virulent form could only be experienced in a crowd.

In their brief absence a few of the more adventurous or desperate wives would seize the opportunity to hire a sitter and meet another of these boy-men, permanent whiskey-dicks, most of them, out at the Lamplighter Motor Court for a little taste of the road not taken, only to discover that it was pretty much the same shabby, two-lane blacktop they'd been traveling all along, just an unfamiliar stretch of it that nonetheless led to pretty much the same destination anyhow.

Really? When? Had all his material become threadbare? After thirty years of marriage, were you supposed to come up with new stuff all the time?

After all, diminishment seemed to be the order of the day. Wouldn't you think the spirit, unshackled at last from so many of the body's youthful imperatives and bolstered by the wisdom of experience, would finally become ascendant? Wasn't memory, that bully and oppressor, supposed to become soft and spongy?

How the three of them had met at Jacy's sorority, where they all slung hash

Richard Russo

Is good fiction more likely to be about the air we breathe or the nose we breathe it through?

Jesus, sixty-six years old. He'd hoped that by now he wouldn't have to be so vigilant, that given enough time the madness--because that's what his spells amounted to--would ebb.

Man starts thinking this late in life, no previous experience or proper guidance, there's no telling where it could lead.

Man starts thinking this late in life, no previous experience or proper guidance

To see a life back to front, as everyone begins to do in middle age, is to strip it of its mystery and wrap it in inevitability, drama's enemy.

But for some reason, these periods of melancholy were important to him, and he rode them out the way some people did migraines.

He knew from his experience overseas that if you only got shot by people aiming at you specifically, war wouldn't have been nearly such a hazardous affair.

you can't understand how wine is made simply by drinking lots of it.

To accept life in its disjointed pieces is an adult experience of freedom, but still these pieces must lodge and embed themselves somewhere, hopefully in a place that allows them to grow and endure.

If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

You are old, Father William—