Quotes About Epiphany

Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing.

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.

I gained an insight, a purloined-letter kind of thing.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

A pesar de que la vida de un hombre se componga de miles y miles de momentos y días, esos muchos instantes y esos muchos días pueden ser reducidos a uno: el momento en que un hombre averigua quién es, cuando se ve cara a cara consigo mismo.

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

Orice destin, oricât de lung sau de complicat ar fi, se reduce de fapt la un unic moment: momentul în care omul înÅ£elege pentru totdeauna cine este.

Any life, no matter how long or complex it may be, is made up essentially of a single moment—the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Orice destin, oricât de lung sau de complicat ar fi, se reduce de fapt la un unic moment: momentul în care omul înÈ›elege pentru totdeauna cine este.

Every step they took, she told him something he'd never known before; and yet it always seemed, the moment she'd said it, as if he had known it all his life.

In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.

There should be a new literary resolution: no more epiphanies. Enough. Have pity on readers who reach the end of a real-life conflict in confusion and don't experience a false sense of temporary enlightenment.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

That was a very aha moment. It was, 'I'm in the big leagues.'

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.

Sometimes it takes a sudden change to make you realise just how bad things were.

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.

Why do you laugh?" he said. "Because at a price I now see that which I couldn't see," I said.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.

It's just...It's just, if I didn't see these windows until today, what else did I miss?