Quotes about Experience
Age seemed to have come down on him as winter comes on the hills after a storm.
— Edith Wharton
No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.
— Edith Wharton
But is has happened, you know. Bear that in mind. Nothing you can do will change it. Time and again, I've found that a good thing to remember.
— Edith Wharton
The fear of man is the sinful exaggeration of a normal experience.
— Edward Welch
Modern spirituality has no hell, no doctrine, no substance. It is about feeling.
— Edward Welch
What is shame? God identifies it. God experienced it. You are not alone.
— Edward Welch
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
— Albert Camus
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
— Aldous Huxley
Every man's memory is his private literature.
— Aldous Huxley
When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.
— Phil Klay
The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.
— Jaime Camil