Quotes About Epiphany

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made sense forever…

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

What Wolf began to realize was that

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

When you discover something long after others have known it, there is a heady contentment that comes.

I remember the day when I finally knew a genuine thought and could follow where it went.

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

There are moments in your life when you know that the sentence that will come next will change your life forever, although you realize, even as you are anticipating this sentence, that your life has already changed. Changed some time ago, and you simply didn't know it.

She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

Again, I was speechless. What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?

The hour that burst the spirit's sleep...

it had been a small consecration, a minor epiphany, and no more

Live life as a series of revelations

We just had a near-life experience!

Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon.