Quotes about Experience
Apparently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older. Only youth has a taste of immortality--
- DH Lawrence
The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea . . . maybe . . . but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
- DH Lawrence
How she hated words, always coming between her and life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the life-sap out of living things.
- DH Lawrence
It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.
- DH Lawrence
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.
- DH Lawrence
The real joy of a book lies in reading it over and over again, and always finding it different, coming upon another meaning, another level of meaning.
- DH Lawrence
I knew from experience that this statement was true, for I myself had been searching for years to discover a practical, working handbook on human relations.
- Dale Carnegie
I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.
- Walt Whitman
The real war will never get in the books.
- Walt Whitman
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots
- Walt Whitman
To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. -from Song of the Open Road
- Walt Whitman
What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
- Walt Whitman