Quotes About Epiphany

Well, shit." I forced a laugh. "I guess I do know what love is, after all." It was Clare. Always Clare.

She felt she had figured something out too late, and that must be the way of life, to get something figured out when it was too late.

These words rolled over Suzanne with a swiftness, as though something true had been said but she couldn't catch it.

Angie se dio cuenta de que había comprendido algo demasiado tarde y que la vida debía de ser eso, comprender algo cuando ya era demasiado tarde.

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person, not only changed, but for the better

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why, post factum they appear so obvious.

By what seemed then and still seems a chance, the suggestion of a moment's idle thought followed up upon familiar lines and paths that I had tracked a hundred times already, the great truth burst upon me, and I saw, mapped out in lines of light, a whole world, a sphere unknown; continents and islands, and great oceans in which no ship has sailed (to my belief) since a Man first lifted up his eyes and beheld the sun, and the stars of heaven, and the quiet earth beneath.

I was meant to be an actor, and I realised that only after my son was born.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

a terrible scorching light showed him the hidden letters that changed the meaning of the past.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'

When you're in the zone, you're more likely to have an epiphany or reach a solution. As you become less self-conscious, you're more confident, which feels emotionally gratifying.

Thinking in Babel-17 was like suddenly seeing the water at the bottom of a well that a moment ago you thought had only gone down a few feet

There is a pivotal moment in life when you realize who you are and the world around you is no longer what it seems. Your reality has changed forever....

Most of us have experienced wow moments. We just haven't taken time to think deeply about them.

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.

Quisiera no saber ahora lo que no sabía entonces.

Touch a limit of your understanding and it falls away, to reveal mystery upon mystery.

Everything in the garden became suddenly vivid as if some general membrane had been peeled away.

This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.