Quotes About Experience

it's only a mistake if it kills you or if you fail to learn from it

I'm an author, Calista. The older I get, the more I'm convinced that a truth only makes sense when it is revealed in the form of a story. Without that context it is simply a random event with no meaning.

Scars, whether seen or unseen, were a very personal matter.

In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder....Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure....Some killers enjoy the kill....For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.

how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

In a road-mender's hut near Vézelay they found a message scrawled on the wall: "La vie est un desert, la femme un chameau. Pour voir le desert il faut monter sur le chameau." ("Life is a desert, woman is a camel. If you want to see the desert you have to ride the camel.")

the book is not an exhaustive account of all aspects of female experience, but a concentrated examination of the concerns that privileged women were prepared to commit to paper (two topics that were virtually never canvassed, for instance, were spirituality and sex).

the extraordinary eighteenth-century proliferation of literature which glamorized romantic experience.

Do not marry a very young man, you know not how he may turn out; it is a lottery at best but it is a very just remark that "it is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's scorn".

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

am in a body. It is not the one I came here with, but it is the one I'll leave here in. I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My pain, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now.

I could get rejected for jobs in acting, directing, or writing for the rest of my life, but nothing would ever take away what the experience of directing my first feature film had taught me: that I know myself better than I think I do and that I know my worth better than others think they do.

It was like that.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Old age is the verdict of life.

All education has this provisional quality. In school, as well as in dreams, we learn in childhood a great deal that finds no immediate use or expression. For many years we may scarcely remember the lesson, then comes the occasion for it, and the information needed is suddenly restored.

The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.