Life Experience Quotes

I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully in front of the washing machine.

~ Kristie Levangie

I’ve experienced a lot of crap in my life but the one thing that I have learned, is it is better to laugh about it rather than complain about it.

~ Karon Waddell

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

~ Susan Wiggs

Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.

~ Mark R. Faulkner

Ecstasy...When you increase your ability to create ecstasy out of those things found in everyday life, all of your ecstatic sensual experiences grow deeper.

~ Barabara Carrellas

Whoever changes one life, changes the whole world.

~ Michele Amitrani

When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time?

~ Mohiro Kitoh

Life is great.Life is amazing.Observe the beauty in everything you do.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

That was the splendid thing about life: Though it was cruel, it was also mysterious, filled with wonder and surprise; sometimes the surprises were so amazing that they qualified as miraculous, and by witnessing those miracles, a despondent person could discover a reason to live, a cynic could obtain unexpected relief from ennui, and a profoundly wounded boy could find the will to heal himself and medicine for melancholy.

~ Dean Koontz

It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.

~ Julie Powell

Always you have to train yourself to swim with sharks.

~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all.

~ Lady Antebellum

It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

~ Virginia Woolf

Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life.

~ Kathryn Perez

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?

~ Jennifer Egan

Sometimes it’s the mistakes that turn out to be thebest parts of life

~ Carrie Ryan

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

~ Sarah Addison Allen

I used to think I knew all the answers. Then I thought I knew maybe a few of the answers. Now I'm not even sure I understand the questions. Nobody knows anything.

~ Pete Nelson

Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

~ Robert Cormier

There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first sex - who, the moment you see them, bring a spark...and something far more potent. They bring back your old life and with that, potential. And possibilities. And the feeling that if you were back in that time, life could be so very different from where you're stuck right now. That's the most tantalizing thing....I want my potential back.

~ Brad Meltzer

A mature soul filled with scars of life experiences.

~ Toba Beta

I quite enjoy the lines on my forehead because they show my life. That’s my history and I like to see that in other people. Like this wrinkle is due to some girl who broke my heart. I don’t want to escape it in any way.

~ Michael Fassbender

Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped. Then there was a short period when you weren't with anybody, then another woman arrived, and you ate with her and fucked her, and it all seemed so normal, as if you had been waiting just for her and she had been waiting for you. I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.

~ Charles Bukowski

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

~ Chris Bohjalian

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

~ Helen Keller

He looks like a ghost, haunted by a life suddenly torn away, and I don’t know how to comfort him.

~ Victoria Aveyard

the greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. they put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools of systems in their name. they never create or stir but just melt down into love

~ Tom Robbins

What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

~ Jed Rubenfeld

One, you moved here with your father, which means your a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are.

~ Holly Hood

I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

~ Lee Child

The only limits we have are the ones we give ourselves.

~ S.m. Oberhansley

Only those who leave home ever really find it.

~ Gene Ruyle

If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. You have to only open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad, and you'll see what I mean.

~ Haruki Murakami

Finding out how the rest of the world lives is a normal part of rumschpringe. I didn't think it was up to my father-or my bishop-to squash that kind of curiosity.

~ Mary Ellis

Beyond the dark water of the womb there is an entire universe to be dealt with.

~ Charles Mitch Turner

Chatting with someone who has no life experience is like consulting a dentist. You know the answers will be painful but you have to ask.

~ Neil A. Hogan

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.

~ Richard Paul Evans

How lucky we are, when we are spared what we think we want!

~ Lionel Shriver