Quotes About Epiphany

An epiphany is a powerful experience, but the myth of epiphany is that it alone is all you need.

I froze in time! And I thought, "My God... I'm free!"

Insight occurs just because it is high time.

But, oh my god, look what's happened.

Strange how clarity can come at such a time and place, so unexpectedly, so out of the blue, though who's firing the bolt?

I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you've always known.

We never come to thoughts. They come to us.

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

Discovery often means simply the uncovering of something which has always been there but was hidden from the eye by the blinkers of habit.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

For the first time in my life, I understood the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

I don't know if it is important to tell you all this, but at the time, it felt like a "breakthrough".

For me," he says, "the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew." In a new poem, he wrote, he "meets himself coming home.

Your poem effectively begins at the first moment you've surprised or startled yourself. Throw away everything that preceded that moment, and begin with that moment.

All that shit starts in E.

An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn't even known I had been asking.

She came around the corner and all of a sudden I understood it: all love is sudden.

You have found the word!

It's rare for someone to say something to you, just a few words, really, and actually make you see yourself from a completely different vantage point.

The power of it was all finally there, finally real for me.