Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life. — Tucker Carlson
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. — C. S. Lewis
Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic! — Rachel Stevens
I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful. — Louise Bourgeois
The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out. — Leonardo DiCaprio
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable. — Tim Field
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. — Douglas Adams
I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt. — Robert Cormier
He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do. — William S. Knudsen
My best vacation is your worst nightmare. — Jim Bridwell
It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying! — Wendelin Van Draanen
My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother. — Ronnie Spector
Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die. — Nic Pizzolatto
Short Horrible Experience Quotes
If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life. — Howard Lyman
You can't create experience. You must undergo it. — Albert Camus
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life. — Duke of Wellington
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers. — Rachel Vincent
For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism. — Maajid Nawaz
The worst things in life comes free to us — Ed Sheeran
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime. — J. G. Ballard
Wear your tragedies as armor, not shackles.
Bad Experience Quotes
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. — Mark Twain
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. — Jean Plaidy
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. — George S. Patton
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. — Chanakya
Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. — Andy Warhol
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow. — Kurt Vonnegut
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decisions. — Tucker Carlson
Any trend that generates a lot of excitement encounters scepticism due to the bad experiences - internet and housing crashes - of the past 20 years. — Cathie Wood
Unpleasant Experiences Quotes
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. — S. N. Goenka
This is why boredom can feel so surprisingly, aggressively unpleasant: we tend to think of it nearly as a matter of not being particularly interested in whatever it is we’re doing, but in fact, it’s an intense reaction to the deeply uncomfortable experience of confronting your limited control. — Oliver Burkeman
Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky. — Buddha
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. — Sylvia Boorstein
We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength. — Dalai Lama
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience. — Keith Henson
When you can't look on the bright side I will sit with you in the dark.
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. — Nelson Mandela
To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience. — Lizette Woodworth Reese
If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something. — Yoko Ono
Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had. — Chris Boardman
Negative Experiences Quotes
The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience. — Virginia Satir
There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that. — Dave Navarro
The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. — Mark Manson
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you test first and the lesson afterward.
We seek the fulfillment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive. — Oliver Burkeman
Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future. — Neville Goddard
Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. — Mark Manson
Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.
Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily. — Tia Walker
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. — Ram Dass
Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life’s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences. — Amanda Ripley
Most of our goals are generated by negative experiences. — Dan Sullivan
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited. — Sylvia Plath
Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands. — Milton William Cooper
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. — John Updike
Add life to your days, not days to your life.
It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason. — Dwight Schultz
A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible. — Michael J. Fox
The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience. — Dario Argento
Life will give you whatever experience is the most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
I try to stay friends with everybody because you might go back and work with somebody who you had a horrible experience with and it could be great the next time. You never know which way it's going to go, never say never. — Rob Zombie
I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing. — Chuck Klosterman
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. — Robert Byrd
I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening. — Bruce Sterling
I have had really positive experiences in every medium, as well as horrible experiences in every medium. — Jimmi Simpson
The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority. — Susan Stebbing
I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood. — Sarah Ruhl
I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass. — David Low
I've dated people where we traveled horribly together, and if one thing went wrong, it was horrible for them. Then I've been fortunate enough to have great traveling experiences where everything lined up and even when things went wrong, you just laughed about it. You learn so much about yourself when you're traveling with someone. — Candice Accola
The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were. — Adam Carolla
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me! — Andie MacDowell
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. — Jack Henry Abbott
Being worshipped is a horrible experience. — John Fahey
It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience. — Andrew McCarthy
Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience. — Ray Bradbury
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. — Sylvia Plath
The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't understand - before and it's really horrible. Eighteen years ago, I played a mute in one film because I couldn't speak Mandarin. There was another film where I had to speak Vietnamese. It's horrible! — Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Obstacles become monsters in your head; evil horrible creatures. Obstacles are sometimes good things. Sometimes they just ARE - not characterized as good or bad, but just as things like ancient mossy rocks that are a part of the human experience. — Sameer Gadhia
The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go wrong. You could get into a war. You could find that you have members of your family on the wrong side of a political crisis. You could be raped. You could find that your child has gone crazy because of some horrible experience she's had. — Martha C. Nussbaum
I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way. — Daniel Pinchbeck
I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people. — Judy Woodruff
The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly - had to do with this weird thing I do every now and then. Like everyone else, as a reader there are certain things that really rub me the wrong way in fiction - pet bugbears, let's call them. — Roy Kesey
There's no violence worse than the violence of Iraq. For the last fifty years Iraq has been living a nightmare of violence and terror. It's been a horrible experience and people in Iraq will need a lot of time and work to get over the disastrous effects. But first we have to think about how to stop the violence, so that the bloodshed stops. In spite of everything, on the personal level I don't easily lose hope. — Hassan Blasim
Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil. — Francis Ford Coppola
I use music and mantras that transform my thoughts from the negative to the positive. If I'm thinking the world is a horrible place, I can transform my life by saying, 'I won't give up', 'I won't worry my life away' and 'I won't hesitate no more', using these lyrics to change my experience. That is, I believe, what makes me seem like a positive person. — Jason Mraz
Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism.... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls. — Tom DeLay
Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do it and days where it's just not happening, and I feel like that's how it is with all artists; you have some days it kind of works. — Kelly Reilly
Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. Bad websites have horrible personalities and instill horrid emotional states in their users, usually unwittingly. We need to design things-products, websites, services-to convey whatever personality and emotions are desired. — Donald A. Norman
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. — Honore de Balzac
My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow. — Zachary Levi
I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible. — Hayden Panettiere
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. — Jack Abbott
If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before. — Logan Pearsall Smith
What drew me to Batman in the first place was Bruce Wayne's story, and that he's a real character whose story begins in childhood. He's not a fully formed character like James Bond, so what we're doing is following the journey of this guy from a child who goes through this horrible experience of becoming this extraordinary character. That, for me, became a three-part story. And obviously the third part becomes the ending of the guy's story. — Christopher Nolan
A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie. — Vernon Howard
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director. — Daniel Radcliffe
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release. — Joaquin Phoenix
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