Carmen Laforet Quotes

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

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

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

I don't have any regrets. I wouldn't change a thing. You learn as you go.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

We're constantly, as human beings, trying to understand why we do what we do and how we got to wherever we find ourselves today. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to look back and go, 'I can't believe I spent one day with that person, much less two years.'

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

If I would have had the same opportunities when I was 22, there's a good chance I would have squandered them. I know my work wouldn't have been any good.

I remember some of the biggest mistakes I have made really, really well.

I think, like anyone else, I made my mistakes.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.

I was young at Inter and did things I wouldn't do again.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.