Experience Quotes

I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This...and this...and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home.

~ Stephen King

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

~ Gillian Linscott

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.

~ Harold Bloom

Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to do during the 'totality'. The television also told her she wouldn't age if she bought expensive creams and pills.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

~ P.d. James

Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience.

~ A.d. Posey

The Great stories give us the hope and the courage to survive life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every experience is enduring adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Experiment your sacred self!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.

~ Gregory Miller

Life is made of connections. Who knows why fate throws things in our direction, but one thing's for sure, new things are there to offer value to our lives and teach us something new about ourselves. It's what makes life exciting.

~ Serina Hartwell

If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

~ Phil Lesh

The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal one passes from the natural attitude of the scientist to the transcendental phenomenological attitude (which, according to phenomenology, is the properly philosophical attitude).

~ Evan Thompson

If all is Consciousness, experience its infinity, create your own journey through it, be amazed.

~ Jay Woodman

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

~ Tasha Alexander

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

~ Robert Frost

If one just intellectually understands the view it will not help! One must actually experience it! There are many people who understand the view but don’t experience it. If the view were experienced, they wouldn’t act the way they do!

~ Padampa Sangye

When you experience something, it actually widens your understanding about everything.

~ Jayson Engay

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean — wherever my imagination ranges.

~ Anton Chekhov

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.

~ Anton Chekhov

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

~ Bernard Malamud

Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces.

~ Peter Frase

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s

~ Samuel R. Delany

Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Enjoy good moments while they last, then make sure they're not the last

~ Constance Friday

Not everyone takes action to harvest the experiences of the seasons of life in order to enjoy their bounty.

~ Andrea Goeglein

We are all sorry for something. It's what makes us human, says Seda. But sometimes empathy is not enough. Sometimes empathy needs to be followed by action.

~ Aline Ohanesian

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.

~ William S. Burroughs

This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate… the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss… this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.

~ Steve Maraboli

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

~ Paulo Coelho

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

~ Randy Pausch

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

~ Eckhart Tolle