Quotes about Experience

Nothing could be seen whole or read from start to finish. What was seen begun - like two friends starting to meet each other across the street - was never seen ended. After twenty minutes the body and mind were like scraps of torn paper tumbling from a sack and, indeed, the process of motoring fast out of London so much resembles the chopping small of identity which precedes unconsciousness and perhaps death itself...

And, what was even more exciting, she felt, too, as she saw Mr Ramsay bearing down and retreating, and Mrs Ramsay sitting with James in the window and the cloud moving and the tree bending, how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. Mr

she] might have been a shell, and his words water rubbing against her ears, as water rubs a shell on the edge of a rock.

How terrible old age was, she thought; shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the centre.

She must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.

Knowledge comes through suffering.

That she had grown older? Would he say that, or would she see him thinking when he came back, that she had grown older?

What she liked was simply life. 'That's what I do it for', she said, speaking aloud, to life.

The highest dream we could ever dream, the wish that if granted would make us happier than any other blessing, is to know God, to actually experience Him. The problem is that we don't believe this idea is true. We assent to it in our heads. But we don't feel it in our hearts.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

"Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my uncle Toby—"but nothing to this."