Harsh Experience Quotes

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

His mouth is a no-go area. It's like kissing the Berlin Wall.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

If the eyes are the window to your soul open eyes bring the cold.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.

I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.