Quotes About Experience

Sometimes women who aren't perfect are more interesting; they've done more, or learned something.

Kids need to learn that you need to feel bad sometimes. We learn through experience, and we learn especially through bad experiences.

They are the last American generation to remember the years of the Great Depression, and the last to know a time before the end of World War II. Unlike the Greatest generation just before them, who were adults at the time, Silents experienced these events as children and adolescents. Nearly all Silents were born too late to serve in World War II, creating a dividing line in generational experience.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

The individual acts only if he experiences a need, i.e., if the equilibrium between the environment and the organism is momentarily upset, and action tends to re-establish the equilibrium, i.e., to re-adapt the organism (Claparède).

We shall adopt an analogous formula, with the reservation that feelings and cognitive configurations do not depend solely on the existing "field," but also on the whole previous history of the acting subject.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Hell--or Heaven--is here, now, inside.

To her own heart, which was shaped exactly like a valentine, there came a winglike palpitation, a delicate exigency, and all the fragrance of all the flowery springtime love affairs that ever were seemed waiting for them in the whisky bottle. To mingle their pain their handshake had promised them, was to produce a separate entity, like a child that could shift for itself, and they scrambled hastily toward this profound and pastoral experience.

Singing Beach on the North Shore of Boston. Do you know the beach? It's called Singing Beach because the sand sings in this strange way under your bare feet when you run across it.

I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

I keep thinking what a lot I missed out on through being so introverted. I am not referring to sex but all the other things. Being sociable, I suppose.)

It is funny how certain places get connected with certain people, and you never go back without thinking of them.

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

Ce n'est pas une autobiographie qu'on devrait écrire mais dix, mais cent, car, si nous n'avons qu'une vie, nous disposons d'innombrables manières de (nous) la raconter.

plus cher et le plus inaccessible reste celui d'écrire ce qu'on appelle avec dédain un roman de gare, celui qu'on ouvre à Austerlitz et qu'on laisse sur la banquette à Angoulême, en ayant juste sauté quelques pages de description (ça

L'expérience même n'était pas nécessaire. Sartre, j'en aurais juré, ne s'était jamais risqué sur des skis nautiques et pourtant il trouvait le moyen de décrire – et sur des pages – la jouissance du skieur. Ah ! comme l'intelligence pouvait être gaie !

n'ai obéi qu'à une exigence, d'ailleurs non formulée, celle de donner à entendre ma voix, et cela, si je puis dire, à mes propres oreilles : ma voix, comme si je craignais, après tant d'années consacrées à écouter les voix des autres, de perdre la mienne

Afrika'y? bulmak için', diye onu uyarm??t? babas?, 'önce içinde kaybolmak gerekir'.

Jean-Christophe Grangé

Il nous semble aujourd'hui que le mariage est quelque chose de trop sérieux pour le confier à des jeunes gens. Ce devrait être un aboutissement, vous ne croyez pas? Un but à atteindre, un idéal. Pour y parvenir, il faudrait toutes les ressources de la maturité, toutes les leçons de l'expérience et le temps surtout, le temps pour rencontrer la bonne personne et la reconnaître...

L'expérience n'est que le masque dont on affuble son optimisme quand on veut le faire partager à plus jeune que soi.