Delmore Schwartz Quotes

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

It is funny what a year can do.

Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

Life is our dictionary.

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

If you ask me, everything... every event that takes place changes your life.

It's crazy what a year can do.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

You learn from everything.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.