Quotes About Experience

Falling in love is like falling off a building—it doesn't hurt till the end.

He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical.

I'm the sum of all of my experiences. I'm the culmination of a series of events that have allowed me to arrive at this moment. Even, quite possibly, driven me to this moment. I have controlled some, but most have led me. There is no other identical to what I have become. None. I am me.

I read this book, it said a woman should think of her virginity like it's a window. And every time you sleep with a guy, it's like letting him put his fingerprints on your window. Staining your glass.

Women ignore history. Always think it will be different for them.

Narrative is the frame upon which we hang selected swaths of experience in order to construct a shelter of meaning.

They share a vision of a society where more people are able to claim and create more power—for themselves, by themselves—against the encroachments of others. And they now share an experience that teaches them that it is both possible and necessary to create power: to activate people who very reasonably could believe that the deck is so stacked against them that there's no point in getting involved.

To put it aphoristically, no experience can feel meaningful to a nihilist—that is, to someone who has already decided that life is meaningless.

Má»™t cuá»™c s?ng gi?n d? ngày nay là cuá»™c phiêu lÆ°u d? th??ng nh?t.

I thought in over a thousand years I'd seen all there was to see.

As Rothko was to say about these later works, "A painting is not a picture of an experience. It is an experience.

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

To design for compactness and orthogonality, start from zero. Zen teaches that attachment leads to suffering; experience with software design teaches that attachment to unnoticed assumptions leads to non-orthogonality, noncompact designs, and projects that fail or become maintenance nightmares.

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

What we remember lacks the hard edge of fact. To help us along we create little fictions, highly subtle and individual scenarios which clarify and shape our experience. The remembered event becomes a fiction, a structure made to accommodate certain feelings. This is obvious to me. If it weren't for these structures, art would be too personal for the artist to create, much less for the audience to grasp. Even film, the most literal of all the arts, is edited. —Jerzy Kosinski

Nothing human was worth denying. Even if it was unspeakably ugly, we could learn from it, couldn't we? Or could we? I never questioned that at all.

It's written that learning is more precious than rubies, more lasting than gold. Rubies may be lost and gold stolen, but that which you learn is yours forever.

All the highway is good for is to tell you to keep moving, there's nothing to see. That's for idiots who want to go as fast as possible from one point to another. We're not doing geometry here, we're traveling. Find me. some pretty little roads that show us all there is to see.

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Si le voyageur n'espère rien, Il ne verra que ce que voient les yeux.

es gibt gar keine Erklärung fürs Leben, man muß es einfach leben.