Quotes about Experience

The thing that was great about San Jose State was, I got connected with some very good professors.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

Indeed it is not usual for the young to grieve.

Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you're as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn't sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let's walk.

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

They were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others.

All life was transmitted into terms of their love, all experience, all desires, all ambitions, were nullified - their senses of humour crawled into corners to sleep;