Experienced Quotes

1303 quotes by 1020 authors

It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well,… — Elizabeth Hoyt
Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle. — Elizabeth Chandler
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced… — Mahatma Gandhi
Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you… — Chelsea Handler
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real… — Diane Ackerman
Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can… — Jennifer Egan
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting-- no, never mind, I was… — Lisa Kleypas
Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't our lives be… — David Sedaris
I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often… — Michel Houellebecq
This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that… — Johnny Cash
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. — David Mitchell
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total… — Jim Butcher
But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story… — Donald Miller
For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a… — David Foster Wallace
Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or… — Meg Rosoff
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely… — Fernando Pessoa
It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood — Julia Quinn

Who Wrote These Experienced Quotes

1,020 authors contributed a total of 1,303 Experienced Quotes, led by these top contributors: