Quotes about Experience

I loved the country so that I was happy as you are after you have been with a woman that you really love, when, empty, you feel it welling up again and there it is and you can never have it all and yet what there is, now, you can have, and you want more and more, to have, and be, and live in, to possess now again for always, for that long, sudden-ended always; making time stand still, sometimes so very still that afterwards you wait to hear it move,and it is slow in starting.

But why must all the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

If you ever live to be as old as I am you will find many things strange." "You never seem old." "It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser." "You are wise." "No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." "Perhaps that is wisdom." "It is a very unattractive wisdom.

I may not be as strong as I think,' the old man said, 'But I know many tricks and I have resolution.

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.

You learn in this war if you listen.

I pointed to the canvas where the rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.

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

You saw fear and apprehension. The fear was made by what he had been through. The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined.

It was hot, but the town had a cool, fresh, early-morning smell and it was pleasant sitting in the café.

I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know