Quotes about Experience

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.

I suffered immensely. Then it passed away. I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.

Realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine.

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends—those were the fascinating things in life.

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.