Quotes About Experience

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

We are surrounded by story.

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

She would live now, not read.

Emotion isn't really what I felt . . . Living, one is so detached.

when someone reads poems I exist to be the one who's feeling it.

I'm alive and dead now, at the same time, speaking in your poems.

You're too lazy, passive to suffer. I do that for you too.

I have just transcended my epoch; I am alive outside written memory.

I wish you didn't have to go through things I've been through.

the litup soul/self I have been From time to time I can't remember

Your phantasmagoric wound has closed.

It's now strange to live in this body. I don't feel at one with it at all.

I'll never know how to live, will you? That was blood in my eyes, not flames.

I only remember that it all hurt.

Of course I'm not being objective it was my life As a matter of fact I feel positively defiant about