Quotes About Experience

What does it remember like?

It's better to lose than to never have had.

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.

It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in my head. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not true. More likely, the young and the old are lonely in different ways, in their own ways...

When I got off the plane, after eleven hours of travel and forty years away, the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, To mourn, and then, To mourn try to live, he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, Neither. For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live? For as long as I can. Are we talking about a weekend or a year? I didn't write anything. The man said, Next.

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 think after you live it's like before you lived.

Ich versuche mich an alles zu erinnern, was ich getan habe, Oskar. Und alles, was ich nicht getan habe. Die Fehler, die ich begangen habe, sind mir egal. Aber was ich nie getan habe, kann ich auch nicht zurücknehmen.

I'd left behind a thousand tons of marble, I could have released sculptures, I could have released myself from the marble of myself. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough?

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life [...]

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

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

So many days in their shared life. So many experiences. How had they managed to spend the previous sixteen years unlearning each other?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life. Foer, Jonathan Safran (2006-04-04). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Kindle Locations 1939-1940). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

Hayat?m?n en güzel günlerinden biri, hayat?m? yaÅŸad???m ve hayat?m hakk?nda hiç düÅŸünmediÄŸim bir gündü.

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

And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal experience of my book would be like listening to music.

It takes life to live life

I spent my life learning how 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.

At first it made me angry, but then it made me sad, and then it made me so grateful, and then it made me angry again, and I went through these feelings hundreds of times, stopping on each for only a moment and then moving to the next.

I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.