Quotes About Experience

It can't be very pleasant getting used to living - no pleasanter than getting used to stopping it.

Niyeyse, bir ÅŸeyi ikinci kez düÅŸündüÄŸünüzde asla ilki kadar iyi olmuyor. Hiç bunu fark?na varm?? m?yd?n?z?

I'm glad and I'm sorry. I'm sorry because this drive has been so pleasant and I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure. And it's so often the case that it isn't pleasanter. That has been my experience anyhow. But I'm glad to think of getting home.

One would not drink of the cup of forgetfulness if one could.

Diana tried to explain what it was like, but I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.

I'm glad and I'm sorry. I'm sorry because this drive has been so pleasant and I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure. And it's so often the case that it isn't pleasanter. That has been my experience anyhow.

Judging from what you all, say" remarked Aunt Jamesina, "the sum and substance is that you can learn — if you've got natural gumption enough — in four years at college what it would take about twenty years of living to teach you.

Bayan Lynde'in dediÄŸi gibi, bu dünyada kavuÅŸmalardan ve ayr?l?klardan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey yok.

all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken—only felt and endured.

Sit down, child, said Mrs. Clow, who never got excited over anything, and so had missed a tremendous amount of trouble and delight in her journey through life.

those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

Perhaps after a while I'll get used to it, but I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.

Do you know, that is a question I often ask myself—If I could would I go back to my old self? —and I can never answer it. I can never dare to say either no or yes. The fruit of the tree of knowledge may leave a bitter taste in the eater's mouth, but there is something in its flavor that can never be forgotten or counterfeited.

But agony is nonetheless real because in later years when we have learned that everything passes, we wonder what we agonized about.

Life would be dull if we hadn't a few tragedies to look back on.

And the awful joy of dreaming that he was young again, with unspoiled life before him, was so great and compelling that it counterbalanced the agony in the realization of a dishonoured old age, following years in which he had squandered the wealth of his soul in ways where Wisdom lifted not her voice.

Es la primera vez que veo una cosa que no puedo mejorar con la imaginación. Y me ha hecho sentir algo especial aquí. —dijo, poniendo la mano sobre el pecho—. Como dolor y placer al mismo tiempo.

If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it. Somebody else's experience can never be yours. Well, it's a funny old world.

Life was certainly very interesting.

It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light and dark: it is only with effort that I see them in terms of colour. There are things I know, though I don't know how I know them, and things that I remember. Certain things are established in my mind as facts, but no picture attaches to them; on the other hand there are pictures unverified by any fact which recur obsessively, like the landscape of a dream.

El pasado es un país extranjero: allí las cosas se hacen de manera distinta.

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill

I was no longer satisfied with the small change of experience, which had hitherto contented me. I wanted to deal in larger sums.