Quotes About Experience

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color. - Ernest Hemingway

That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?

The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.

Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.

There is never any ending to Paris, and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. Paris was always worth it, and you received return for whatever you brought to it…

Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

We can't ever go back to old things or try and get the "old kick" out of something or find things the way we remembered them. We have them as we remember them and they are fine and wonderful and we have to go on and have other things because the old things are nowhere except in our minds now.

You talk like a time-table. Did you have any beautiful adventures?

Age is my alarm clock," the old man said. "Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was gray and the sky was covered and the cloud came on down the mountain and suddenly we were in it and it was snow.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

But I could tell thee of other things, Inglés , and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man.

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I though, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had.

Spanish girls make wonderful wives. I've never had one so I know.