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Quotes About Experience

We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.
~ Kate Bush
If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.
~ India.Arie
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
~ Billie Holiday
I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
~ Faye Dunaway
I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is
~ Shahrukh Khan
...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
~ Fernando Pessoa
You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.
~ Ice Cube
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.
~ Alex Hirsch
There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.
~ Corey Harris
I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.
~ Fred D'Aguiar
Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness.
~ Louis C. K.
I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
~ Rick Moody
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
~ William Shakespeare
We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon
~ Sherilyn Fenn
We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.
~ Tony Hancock
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Living, it can be sad too.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.
~ Ryan Adams
Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
~ Dante Alighieri
Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
~ Aberjhani
It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.
~ Judith Viorst