Quotes About Experience

Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with others, with those who don't originate from the planet of words and language. Other things do happen, but we don't know what they are until we write about them, or think about them in words, or remember them in phrases. - From "Why She Writes

Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.

Believe me, all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it

Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins drôle et c'est plus long." ("To die is nothing. Begin by living. It's less funny and lasts longer.") [ Roméo et Jeannette ]

But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.

Living is a horizontal fall.

We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

and June burst over the mountain. It smelled good, tasted good, and was gentle to the eyes.

There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Nu, nu eram niste ignoran?i. Dar eram mor?i. Timpul ne-o luase înainte.

Ai fi zis c? se îngr??au din spiritul vremii care trece.

trecutul meu este trecut, mai trecut decât alte trecuturi, ?i se scufund? în întuneric.

Il y a des jours, des mois, des années interminables où il ne se passe presque rien. Il y a des minutes et des secondes qui contiennent tout un monde.

Pablo Picasso once remarked, 'One starts to get young at the age of sixty.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.