"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained." ― Joseph Roux Topic(s): Experience More From Joseph Roux "We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." "Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired." "Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions." More In Experience "I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience."― Robert Duvall "Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."― Friedrich Nietzsche "Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."― David Herbert Lawrence