Quotes About Experience

You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it.

Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,— But we forget not, never can forget.

It is not the things we see, but the mind we see them with, which makes the real interest of travelling.

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.

Don't worry', he said. I almost laughed when he said that. Don't worry. It's only the people whove never had to worry about shit in their lives who say that.

il tempo è fuggito tanto velocemente che l'animo non è riuscito ad invecchiare.

The page is slowly turned, falls over to join the others, the ones already finished. It is still only a thin layer. Those still to be read are inexhaustible in comparison. But it is always another page finished, a portion of your life.

El caballo trota alegremente, el día es bueno, el aire tibio y ligero, la vida aún larga por delante, casi está por empezar. [...] Se vuelve así lentamente una página, se extiende al lado opuesto, agregándose a las otras ya acabadas, por ahora es sólo una capa fina, las que quedan por leer son, en comparación, un montón inagotable. Pero de todos modos es siempre una página gastada, mi teniente, una porción de vida.

Così una pagina lentamente si volta, si distende dalla parte opposta, aggiungendosi alle altre già finite, per ora è solamente uno strato sottile, quelle che rimangono da leggere sono in confronto un mucchio inesauribile. Ma è pur sempre un'altra pagina consumata, signor tenente, una porzione di vita.

I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.

You got the sea-priestess through the moon," she said, "for the moon rules the sea. They are not two separate experiences, but two consecutive parts of the same experience.

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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

I love writing about places I know well. Research is my least favourite thing, as it takes time from the story, but I can't write about a place I've never experienced.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

Everything can be used in a lifetime; I've discovered that.

The way she said "dinner" and the way she said "champagne" gave meat and liquid their exact difference, as if by having surmounted two mediums, earth and air, her talent, running forward, achieved all others.

She was broad and tall, and though her skin was the skin of a child, there could be seen coming, early in her life, the design that was to be the weather-beaten grain of her face, that wood in the work; the tree coming forward in her, an undocumented record of time.