Quotes About Epiphany

For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.

Now I understand," said the last man.

My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman.

My God -- it's full of stars!

You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

Ages passed I knew at last my life had never been.

You had a near life experience.

A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.

Of course I knew. It was the reason I was no longer comatose after an entire life of sleepwalking.

He walked until his heart was as dreary as the sky, until some sort of truth came to him.

Insight is sudden. It is a flash of understanding. It's what we do with our insights that can take a lifetime.

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions—only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. … This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

What a comfort it was, I thought, to hear someone put into words something that you were on the verge of grasping.

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

I dreamed of recording a guitar album since I started playing, but I just never felt ready. I never felt like I was the player that I wanted to be. But I had this epiphany: you're never going to feel ready.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

And I woslike: O wow.

And I thought I was the only one who put two and two together!" Everyone

Like a dog defeated in a frenzied circle by its own tail and slowing and realizing then that the tail it was after all along was already its possession

When I see her,' I said, 'it's like - I don't know what it's like. It's like I never saw anything at all before.

Nearly every major innovation of the 20th century took place without claims of epiphany.