Quotes About Experience

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children and children are always smarter than their parents.

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.

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

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.

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. Foer, Jonathan Safran (2006-04-04). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Kindle Locations 1882-1883). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

Time passed, the world exerted itself, and Jacob and Julia began to forget to do things on purpose.

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

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

that night was the first time your mother and I made love since I returned, and the last time we ever made love, it didn't feel like the last time, I'd kissed Anna for the last time, seen my parents for the last time, spoken for the last time, why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was my last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future

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. I would kiss my piano teacher, even if he laughed at me. I would jump with Mary on the bed, even if I made a fool of myself. I would send out ugly photographs, thousands of them.

The older one gets, the harder it is to account for time. Children ask: "Are we there yet?" Adults: "How did we get here so quickly?

As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.

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.

Sie war ein Genie der Traurigkeit: Sie badete in Traurigkeit, sie entwirrte die zahlreichen Stränge der Traurigkeit, sie kostete alle zarten Nuancen der Traurigkeit aus. Sie war ein Prisma, durch dass die Traurigkeit in ihr undendlich breit gefächertes Spektrum zerlegt werden kontte.

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

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. 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.

In adancul inimii lor, tinerii sunt mai singuri decat batranii. Am citit asta undeva, intr-o carte si mi-a ramas in cap. Poate ca e adevarat. Poate ca nu. Mai curand, tinerii si batranii sunt singuri in feluri diferite, fiecare in felul sau...

Cartile sunt pentru aceia care nu au vieti adevarate.

The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is still inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. 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.

What do you think is going on?' 'I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?

Feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn't it?

Ela escreveu: quem me dera ser outra vez rapariga e ter a possibilidade de viver de novo a minha vida. Sofri muito mais que o necessário. E as alegrias que tive nem sempre foram alegres. Podia ter vivido de uma maneira diferente.

We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.

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.