experience Quotes

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.