Quotes About Epiphany

Simply Splendid Solution Suddenly

Just once I knew what life was for.

A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning.

Sometimes when a thing hits you, it hits you in levels, and the reality of what's happening has been a progression for me.

I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.

she felt that she had learned something, though exactly what it was she did not know.

Maggie didn't realize she was

I write to discover what I know

Learning is finding out what you already know.

I thought back to my middle-school experience of having slumber parties and watching Romeo + Juliet and staring at Leo and thinking about my first kiss and what I wanted it to be like. And when you have your first real love, it's an epiphany, you know? It's like a whole new world.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.

It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There's a sort of a epiphany to religious thing; it's not sort of church-based, but you end up with a serenity which you didn't have before, and I just simply enjoy it. It really does sound stupid, but I've got to tell you it's made my life.

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

The little things gather for a long time, but one morning you look in the mirror and you understand them in a flash.

much-anticipated, long-awaited epiphany is actually a brief, quiet, simple shift in perspective from the one who is looking for That, to the recognition that it is That which is looking.

At that moment, in spite of the dizziness, I felt like Nietzsche when he had his Eternal Return epiphany. An inexorable succession of nanoseconds, each one blessed by eternity.

Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are.

It was right, what they said: Enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

In a moment all became clear to me. How stupid could I have been?

shall." I think I finally guessed then what

It's very simple -- I got smacked up the side of the head and all your bullshit fell out and some sense seeped in.

For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.