Human Experience Quotes

"The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead." "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." "We need never be ashamed of our tears" "There is no story that is not true, the world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others " "Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity" "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain." "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul" "Unrest of spirit is a mark of life." "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy" "Some may never live but the crazy never die" "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." "Life is an endless series of trainwrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness" "The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy" "The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain" "Life without pain has no meaning" "I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy. Second, there are no tragic answers, only silent ones." "The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What’s that, a bonus?" "Touch has a memory" "Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence" "Memory's truth is to desire"