Quotes about Experience

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.

We're all of us pretty much an assemblage of memories.

Did I kill a lot of people? I been asked that question a few times. But never before by a man. I told this one girl I was seeing that yes I had killed a bunch of gooks but that I hadnt eaten any of them.

Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.

Until those charismatic churches who have poor teaching can supply both spiritual empowerment and sounder teaching, many of them will continue to be only a way station for Christians who need a fresh spiritual experience but who end up taking it elsewhere once they have it.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

She was old; millions of years old, she felt.

You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unkowingness, and give up your volition...You've got to learn not-to-be before you can come into being.