Experienced Quotes

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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley
I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at… — Jane Austen
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and… — Augusten Burroughs
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and… — Leo Tolstoy
As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight. — P.G. Wodehouse
A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my… — Haruki Murakami
This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if Iâ€™d only ever experienced love and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is… — Jack Kerouac
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the… — John Gardner
Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them they're not experienced… — Rachel Cohn
People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their… — Ann Brashares
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor… — Martin Buber
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I… — Carl Jung
You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don't… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats.… — Kevin Brockmeier
I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life… — Steven Pressfield
To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us… — Albert Einstein
If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful… — Arthur Golden
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist… — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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