Quotes about Experience
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
- Albert Camus
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
- Alice Hoffman
All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.
- Brigham Young
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
- DH Lawrence
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
- GK Chesterton
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
- Marcus Aurelius
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
- Marianne Williamson
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
- Mark Twain
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
- Mark Twain
I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
- Maya Angelou
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
- Phillips Brooks
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson