Quotes about Experience

Let those who have not walked as we have done, In the red fire of passion, those whose lives Are dull and colourless, in a word let those, If any such there be, who have not loved, Cast stones against you

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

I have known everything, said Lord Henry, with a tired look in his eyes, but I am always ready for a new emotion.

it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic and critical temperament. It makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to

I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices." "The

Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry? asked the duchess after a pause. Especially when one has been wounded by it, answered Lord Henry.

Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.