Lived Experience Quotes

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

My desire is to bring astronomical events and objects down into your personal, lived-in space.

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

I've lived in London more or less permanently since the 1950s.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

This is my dream being lived out and I'm so thankful for that.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

How do you prevent attacks from becoming the very fabric of lived life in a city? Of course it's very easy to say you should be fearless and go about your daily life.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.