Quotes About Experience

It's worth it," she said. "There are some amazing reefs and sea life there." Jacob still looked baffled. "Do you want to be a marine biologist or something?" "No. I just want to see it." "Why?" "Because it's there. Because it's something in the world I haven't experienced yet.

Oh, Rose. You are young. You've barely lived. Everyone thinks their first love is the only one they'll ever have.

Life's like that," he said. "As we grow and change, sometimes things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.

As we grow and change, sometimes things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.

Well. I guess some people write the stories, and others live them.

A year. We'd known each other only a year, but we'd lived a lifetime in it.

You've crossed into Death, into the other side, and returned. Do you think something like that doesn't leave a mark on the soul?

Pretty, huh?' I asked. My breath made frosty clouds in the air. 'I guess in some ways, it's not that different from the ski resort's view... but I don't know. I feel different about it today.' 'Life's like that,' he said. 'As we grow and change, sometimes things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.

We had been too warm, too alive. Death couldn't follow something like that.

What was one more foolish decision in a life full of them?

You can live a lifetime in two years.

Sergeant Samuel Allen, Jr., a former college student who had led his own swing band in the palmy days of peace, tried to explain in a letter home the flinty nihilism that made young men at war seem so old when they contemplated the dead. "We have found that it is best to forget about those friends, not to talk about them," he wrote. "They don't even exist.

everyone has to do one really bad thing in life to call their life a life.

His errors and failures have not traveled the same distance as his successes.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.   The

There are no new stories in nature, only new observers.

I don't know anything about wars. I don't think even the most erudite scholars do. I think you have to fight one, to know it.

I could not even ask myself how in the fuzzy hell I got here, because I knew precisely how it happened, year by year.

Oh, I would have seen it all, eventually, but it needed to happen to a boy; the world loses much of its wonder about the time you pay your first water bill.

You just been travelin'.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

When I'm at a Chinese restaurant having a hard time with chopsticks, I always hope that there's a Chinese kid at an American restaurant somewhere who's struggling mightily with a fork.

sadness and depression are very different experiences. Sadness is a natural response to certain stimuli. It often results in tears and full breathing. It can be a powerful, rich, enlivening experience. Depression, on the other hand, is often the result of blocking sadness, or of blocking anger.