Quotes about experience

Sometimes just carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Albert Camus

Filed under: adversity, depression, experience, humanity

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Carl Jung

Filed under: experience, humanity, truth

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

East of Eden

Filed under: experience, imperfection, life

Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Nikola Tesla

Filed under: conformity, experience

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means - the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

Charles Bukowski

Filed under: experience, sadness, time

I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Anaïs Nin

Filed under: experience, life

Then there was life
with its cruel houses
and people who seldom touched-
though touch is all...

Anne Sexton

Rowing (poem)

Filed under: childhood, disappointment, experience, heartbreak, life

There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

Jeannette Walls

Half Broke Horses

Filed under: experience, highlight, Inspiration, life

“I suppose she’s just dying of living—that’s the one infection that strikes us all down, sooner or later.”

Larry McMurtry

Comanche Moon

Filed under: death, experience, life

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it- don’t cheat with it.

Ernest Hemingway

Filed under: books, experience, life, writing

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time.

Sigrid Nunez

The Friend

Filed under: experience, memory, time, writing

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Filed under: experience, highlight, Inspiration, knowledge, life

“You are thirty minutes late."
"Yes."
"Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?"
"No."
"Why not, pray tell?"
"Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.”

Charles Bukowski

Ham On Rye

Filed under: cynicism, death, experience, humor, life, marriage

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Bob Dylan

Filed under: beauty, experience, Inspiration, pain

The clock moved a quarter of a turn
The time it took a cigarette to burn
She said you got a lot of things to learn
Going nowhere

Elliott Smith

Going Nowhere

Filed under: experience, life

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e.e. cummings

Filed under: experience, highlight, Inspiration, life, personality

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