Quotes About Experience

Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on.

This kiss would be with me, invisible badge or scar, when I went back to the apartment.

The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)

Chaos didn't know what this meant. He kept feeling like somehow, intending to travel across land, he'd traveled through time instead.

Every generation is born innocent, and if that is bad for history, it is nevertheless necessary for life.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father

It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time. Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Sometimes feelings are like that - not positive, not negative, just a lot.

I'm not smarter than you, I'm more knowledgeable than you, and that's only because I'm older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.

I wasn't trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn't matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.

It is better to lose than never to have had.