Experienced Quotes
1303 quotes by 1020 authors
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If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it…
— C.S. Lewis
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If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that…
— Thomas Mann
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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
— Anne Tyler
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Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be…
— Douglas Coupland
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I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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Whitestorm was experienced, wise and brave. When Firestar had been made deputy, he had shown not a scrap of resentment that a lesser cat might…
— Erin Hunter
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Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect--…
— William Styron
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Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that…
— Fernando Pessoa
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[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but…
— Daniel Handler
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You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one…
— Ron Currie Jr.
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And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy.…
— Malcolm X
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..enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as…
— Joseph Campbell
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Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes.…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.
— Donald Barthelme
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I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night…
— Isabel Allende
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You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.
— Charles Yu
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Juliana?†the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that…
— Sarah MacLean
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