Quotes about Experience

How terrible old age was, she thought; shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the centre.

She must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.

Knowledge comes through suffering.

That she had grown older? Would he say that, or would she see him thinking when he came back, that she had grown older?

What she liked was simply life. 'That's what I do it for', she said, speaking aloud, to life.

The highest dream we could ever dream, the wish that if granted would make us happier than any other blessing, is to know God, to actually experience Him. The problem is that we don't believe this idea is true. We assent to it in our heads. But we don't feel it in our hearts.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

"Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my uncle Toby—"but nothing to this."

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!