Quotes About Epiphany

Suddenly a knowledge came upon me.

Understanding requires a release from understanding.

Carson McCullers llamaba iluminaciones a esos espasmos premonitorios de aquello que aún no sabes, pero que ya se agolpa en los bordes de tu conciencia.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are all the other places

Algo había ocurrido allí. En la vida tienes unos cuantos sitios, o quizá uno solo, donde ocurrió algo, y después están todos los demás sitios.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only one place, where something has happened. And then there are the other places, which are just other places.

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments

There is no better high than discovery.

She could not have believed that stones, a Loggia, a fountain, a palace tower, would have such significance. For a moment she understood the nature of ghosts.

I don't know anything, I never did know anything, but now I know I don't know anything!

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

A story is the shortest distance between a human being and truth.

A story is the shortest distance between a human being and the truth.

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

Eureka! - I have found it!

I got lost but look what I found.

I felt that I was hearing the answer to a question that I hadn't known enough to ask.

Thus did he break through Tim's veils

Enlightenment comes to the most dull-witted. It begins around the eyes. From there it radiates.