33 Life Experience Quotes

Life is a journey filled with ups and downs, lessons, and growth. Throughout this adventure, we often turn to words of wisdom for guidance, inspiration, and solace. Whether it's navigating obstacles or celebrating milestones, the right quote can offer the perfect perspective. In this post, we've curated a captivating collection of the top 33 life experience quotes that encapsulate the essence of living fully and learning deeply. Dive in to find the wisdom that speaks to you and resonates with your own unique path.

1. “We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.” - T. S. Eliot

2. “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

3. “I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

4. “Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

5. “I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.” - W.H. Auden

6. “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

7. “One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.” - Rebecca McKinsey

8. “Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.” - C. JoyBell C.

9. “[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey...What I’d see most anyday.” - Jess C. Scott

10. “Sometimes it’s the mistakes that turn out to be thebest parts of life,” - Carrie Ryan

11. “My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn't be.” - Solange nicole

12. “Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

13. “On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,and reflected with astonishment and pityon the madness of the multitude.” - Thomas Love Peacock

14. “I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.” - Anne Brontë

15. “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

16. “Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.” - Robin Wasserman

17. “Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.” - Veronica Roth

18. “Life is not a one act play” - Alex M. Smith

19. “Prisoner of Her Own Captivity” - Brandalynn Davis

20. “She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~” - Susan Wiggs

21. “We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment.” - Rock Peter

22. “and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams.” - Paulo Coelho

23. “-Mary: Il sesso senza amore è un'esperienza vuota!-Isaac: Beh, ma tra le esperienze vuote è una delle migliori.” - Woody Allen

24. “Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in the world which is safe. One cannot live in perpetual fear, one has to be as prudent as possible, and get on with life. - A Severed Wasp” - Madeline L'Engle

25. “Setidaknya saya tidak bersuara di tempat yang tidak semestinya.” - Layla R. Aprilyani

26. “To defend my fear of sudden change, I chose to believe that life was incremental, that the tiny decisions you make every day determine your fate, that your job is to captain an enormous ship subtly into ever-clearer waters. But that’s not how it works at all. Life occurs in moments. You get into college. You propose. You get the job. You get cancer. You get fired. She leaves you...Because I was born in a stable country at a stable time, I falsely extrapolated that change is incremental. But if you zoom out just a little bit, you see that life is soccer, not basketball. It’s revolution, invention, war. It’s big bangs, exploding stars, asteroids killing the dinosaurs. Which means that all the action is in the risk taking, whether I want it to be or not.” - Joel Stein

27. “You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.” - Robertson Davies

28. “I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.” - Justin Smith

29. “The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.” - Paulo Coelho

30. “She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?” - Rachel Abbott

31. “The great thing about life-the most magnificent thing about being these sentient human beings-is that we have been given the power of choice.” - Bryant McGill

32. “Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet” - Sabrina Childress

33. “Do the things you like to be happier, stronger & more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by dedication.” - Rossana Condoleo