Quotes About Experience

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots.

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.

aber was weiß man schon, solange man keine Kinder hat? Nichts weiß man, man wandert mit anderen Ahnungslosen durch ein Tal der Ahnungslosigkeit, ich wusste früher auch nicht, wie das sein könnte, ich habe nicht gefragt, was tun diese Mütter den ganzen Tag?

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

Vivir en una ciudad es, notoriamente, una experiencia ambivalente. Atrae y repele, pero para complicar aún más la situación del habitante de la ciudad, son los mismos aspectos de la vida urbana, intermitentemente o de manera simultánea, los que atraen y repelen." Zygmunt Bauman / Amor líquido

Consuming life cannot be other than a life of rapid learning, but it also needs to be a life of swift forgetting.

Experience of others can be known only as a processed, interpreted story of what the others lived through.

mientras que un dolor de muelas que de pronto cede nos hace sentir en la gloria, los dientes que nunca duelen no nos dan felicidad… De las comparaciones que ignoran el factor de la experiencia no compartida podemos obtener a lo sumo información acerca de la selectividad y el anclaje temporal y espacial de la tendencia a quejarse y del nivel de tolerancia al sufrimiento.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

To have a good memory is to be both blessed and cursed Ã¢â'¬Â¦

The more we are illuminated, the more we want others to experience that also. We can't help but be generous and giving, because self and other is one, and the nature of self and the nature of other is one; it is true nature giving itself to itself. (p. 9)

Did I ever tell you about the time....

It is not surprising that with the experience of our own age, suffering should come foremost, and out of suffering, in the end, emergence, fortitude, loyalty, faith in each other, overwhelming love.

the essence of criticism is conversation - a passionate, rational argument about a shared experience

To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.

You can't measure what a boy did in innocence against what a man has to do for the rest of his life.

I have been trying to remember being young, which is hard because I don't feel old until I try to get up from my chair. Or when I look at the photograph Jennifer took of me sitting on a stool next to her twins, and really, from the back, it looks as if I have an open umbrella concealed under my skirt. How did that happen? I think, but, oh well, I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.

The past is not as interesting to me now as it was when I was young

There's nothing I want to relive—certainly not youth—and as for what's to come, I'm in no hurry. I

But I have to resist the impulse to create memories suitable for framing.

What if some man wanted to tell me how many feet from a dwelling a cesspool needed to be? What if he wanted to talk about the pros and cons of raising the mortgage rate? What if he wanted to talk about his childhood? Or worse, mine!