Quotes About Experience

A poem needs understaning through the senses. The point of diving in a lake, is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake; to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out, it is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

Life experience. I can talk it up, vow to broaden my horizons, but I'm still limited to the experiences with my life. How can a person understand an experience that lies completely outside her own? She can see it, feel it, imagine what it would be like to live it, but it's no different from seeing a movie on a screen and saying, "Thank God that's not me".

Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)

It was awful. It was, like, walk out to the woods, Change, stand there until enough time passed, Change back. It was about as much fun as taking a shit. Nice analogy.

This is the first adventure I've survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I'd call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas

Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I've learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas

I'm not a shrink. Never been to one. Shot a couple. Don't think that counts.

Annie used to have a motorcycle, he said, and she'd taught him to ride it. He also knew how to hot-wire one. I wasn't asking how. Like I said, his life experience wasn't ours.

Babies weren't babies—they were land mines; bear traps; wasp nests. They were a noise, which was sometimes even not a noise, but merely a listening for a noise; they were a damp, chalky smell; they were the heaving, jerky, sticky manifestation of not-sleep.

And if it's not fake, if it's all real, this fun, these friends, this life, then that's even worse, isn't it?

He was in his mid-thirties, with a posture that suggested a hundred.

time doesn't pass. We pass.

His mind was like a house he had spent his life furnishing.

Over the next three or four years you'll do things you'll remember later with deep embarrassment. But when you're old you'll wish you'd done all of them twice.

A mistake is a mistake. Another mistake is normal. Only the same mistake twice makes you a fool.

Over the next three or four years you'll do things you'll remember later with deep embarrassment. But when you're old you'll wish you'd done all of them twice.----Ken Follett

Los años parecen pasar con más rapidez a medida que te vas haciendo mayor.

Nosotros creemos estar experimentando la austeridad, pero no conocemos el significado de la palabra.

Ralph's nostrils filled with a smell he loved: a mixture of sweating horses, wet dogs, leather, and blood. Ralph

?i-a dat seama c? nu a È™tiut niciodat? înÈ›elesul libert??ii pân? când nu a pierdut-o.

There is a special mixture of wisdom and innocence that comes only to adolescents. - Ursula Dewar

Non parlare mai di quanto costi alcunché. Rimani calma e imperturbabile qualunque cosa accada. Ricorda che la campagna è preferibile alla città, l'ozio al lavoro, il vecchio al nuovo, e il rango è più importante del denaro. Devi sapere un po' di tutto, ma non essere davvero esperta in nulla.

Until you had a child, you did not understand how much they had to learn.