Quotes About Experience

In the second photo I am thirty years old. My face has hardened. The jaws are accentuated. The mouth is bitter and mean. I look like a hoodlum in spite of my eyes, which have remained gentle. Their gentleness is almost indiscernible because of the fixity of gaze imposed upon me by the official photographer. By means of these two pictures I can see the violence that animated me at the time: from the age of sixteen to thirty.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all

He was experiencing minutes as light as minuets, minutes composed of anxiety and tenderness.

Il ne savait pas encore que tout événement de notre vie n'a d'importance que la résonance qu'il trouve en nous, que le degré qu'il nous fait franchir vers l'ascétisme

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.

She no longer rubbed shoulders with clouds and heights, sunset and dawn, but with men stinking of goat.

Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character.

She had learned not to expect love, and wasn't even sure she wanted it. This was the most profound wisdom she'd managed to glean from the fifteen years she had spent in her mother's presence.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Kierkegaard said that, and Naomi had always admired the eerie perfection of this simple insight.

I don't think I was young even when I actually was young, and that wasn't yesterday.

The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. He

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we have to say: The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.'" Then

Maybe it's true that the people who live through the times that become history's pivotal points are those least likely to understand them.

But I caught those tears before they fell, and their sting seemed only to intensify the keenness of the moment.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Now the thing about having a baby — and I can't be the first person to have noticed this — is that thereafter you have it.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

The real quest begins when this not-knowing ceases to be an agnostic concept and becomes a living experience.

Ultimate Reality is itself multiplicity, diversity. It is a waste of energy to strive to explain the world and its origin, which only diverts us from the essential Experience.

I've made two mistakes, gentlemen. I've confided in a woman and I've slept in a bed.

Permissiveness constantly deprives children of the examples of adult-centred life where they can find the place they seek in a natural hierarchy of greater and lesser experience, and where their desirable actions are accepted and their undesirable actions rejected, while they themselves are always accepted. Children need to see that they are assumed to be wed intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and want a reliable reaction from their elders to guide them.

Right now, if I were lost in the wilderness, I feel that I could probably make it out, find a way to get home. I've learned a lot, and it's been great fun. Every single one of the caves in this last book I've been in--except for one very small one--and they really are exceptional.