Joseph Roux Quotes

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

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

I know so many people who have tremendous regret in their life.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

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

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Experience is a great teacher.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

Everything is a learning experience.