Of Experience Quotes
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.
He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.
I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.
Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.
We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.
What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.
Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.
Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.
You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.
A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.
You don't ask nobody to give what they can't give, or be what they can't be. You've learnt that, you got a headstart on heartbreak.
Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.
We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.
Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.
Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.
Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.
I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?
Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.
We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.
What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.
The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
