Ryan Adams Quotes

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.

What I learned on 'To Die For,' I learned over the years that followed, when some memory from the shoot would bubble up to the surface of my mind, and I could see it from a new perspective. I would usually cringe when that happened.

As long as you walk away from any experience, good or bad, with lessons and things you can take into the next experience, I don't think you can do anything but look back on it with an appreciation.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

I'm still digesting the '90s. It takes some time to get perspective.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

I learned from my past.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.