Quotes about Experience
Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.
- Milan Kundera
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.
- Milan Kundera
We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come
- Milan Kundera
He was on a quest for sensations he had never experienced, did not understand; he was looking for them in his partner (on the watch for each little emotion her face might reflect), he looked for them in himself (for interminable hours of introspection)
- Milan Kundera
The past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.
- Milan Kundera
Don't forget that not only was Socrates ugly but also that many famous women lovers did not distinguish themselves at all by their physical perfection. Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge women only by what can be seen. But those who really know women understand that the eye reveals only a minute fraction of what a woman can offer us
- Milan Kundera
The crew of her soul rushed up to the deck of her body.
- Milan Kundera
Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all.
- Milan Kundera
Looked at from the outside, I haven't experienced anything. Looked at from the outside! But I have a feeling that my experience inside is worth writing about and could be interesting to everybody.
- Milan Kundera
But her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty, and she would never forget that music. Whenever she heard it, she would be touched. Everything going on around her at that moment would be haloed by the music and take on its beauty.
- Milan Kundera
The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.
- Peter Kreeft
Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.
- Pope Benedict XVI