Quotes About Experience

If a song is memory in some way, let's create a moment that you won't forget. There are lots of ways to do that

There's nothing to this world,' he said, 'but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can on that information.

I was alive, and from past experience I knew in time I would forget enough to again pretend that we could someday be free.

Borne made me happy, but happiness never made anyone less stupid

But I knew from experience how hopeless this pursuit, this attempt to weed out bias, was. Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Whatever your medium, the goal of any arts practice is to develop a greater set of skills for dealing with challenges. Experience will help you close that gap between your own vision and the piece's final execution.

There was no moment like any other moment and yet each moment was the same.

Among all the impossible things he had already witnessed, what were a few more?

How did I know it had happened? Because of its absence now, because I still felt the loss of it, but I didn't know how to convey that to Borne then, because he had never lost anything. Not back then. He just kept accumulating, sampling, tasting. He kept gaining parts of the world, while I kept losing them.

He wondered why the stewardesses were looking at him funny by mid-flight, and realized he'd been responding to their rote kindness with the intensity of someone who has never experienced courtesy, or never expects to experience it again.

The face that stares back at you from the mirror later in life is so different than when you're young. There's a winnowing away and a shutting down. A sense of something having been taken from you and you don't know exactly what it is, just that it isn't there anymore. What opens up to you instead is experience, is cunning, is foreknowledge. Nothing you sought.

What was a person but someone who turned monstrous, anyway? What was a person, in Moss's experience, but a kind of demon.

Nor was Iraq's combat experience in the October War any more impressive: the armoured division that arrived at the Golan front ten days after the war began was ambushed by Israeli forces and lost some 100 tanks within a few hours.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

Enemies were teachers in disguise.

It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again.

For all its emphasis on sexual and romantic experience, Girls never suggests that a smoothly pleasant sex life is something worthy of serious aspiration. The ultimate prize to be wrung from all of these baffling sexual predicaments is a deeper understanding of oneself.

I am deeply moved by things. I'd hate to miss the intense joy of that.

It is the intense pain that destroys a person's self and world, a destruction experienced spatially as either the contraction of the universe down to the immediate vicinity of the body or as the body swelling to fill the entire universe.

And David leaped, and laughed, and loved it all, nor was any of it strange to him. The birds, the treed, the sun, the brook, the scurrying little creatures of the forest of his. But the man- the man did not leap or laughed, though he, too, loved it all. The man was afraid.

Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos. Yo solo soy memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga.

Porque hubo un tiempo en el que yo también estuve en un valle verde y luminoso, fácil a la mano.

esto pasa desde que yo tengo memoria.

El calendario también lo encarcelaba en un tiempo anecdótico y lo privaba del otro tiempo que vivía dentro de él.