Quotes About Epiphany

What?" That's when I knew how wrong I'd been.

The intoxicating delight of sudden understanding.

Every now and then a moment of clarity hits us, and we feel known by something—Someone—of inestimable greatness.

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.

All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion. The initial fear is that one has lost something. A cherished self-conception must be given up, and one feels diminished by it. This is mistaken, however. A person discovers that he has been made stronger by the jettisoning of this sham and disadvantageous baggage. In fact, he has become more "himself," by aligning his self-concept more closely with fact.

All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

You could say I'd never had a true religious moment, the kind where you know yourself spoken to by a voice that seems other than yourself, spoken to so genuinely you see the words shining on trees and clouds. But I had such a moment right then, standing in my own ordinary room. I heard a voice say, Lily Melisa Owens, your jar is open. In a matter of seconds I knew exactly what I had to do -- leave .

We understand what we want to understand.

This realisation – the realisation of the Insignificance of the Knowledge – came to me in the form of a Revelation. What I mean by this is that I knew it to be true before I understood why or what steps had led me there.

It was so obvious that I wondered I had not seen it before, but of course we do not often look at the shadows of things, only the things themselves.

He hablado en muchas partes de la impresión que me produjo esa lectura (el Ulises), pues la novela de Joyce fue algo mucho más importante y decisivo que una mera influencia: fue la Epifanía a de una vocación.

No words for the passion. No words for the need. No words for the sheer epiphany of the moment. And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon, in the heart of Mayfair, in a quiet drawing room on Mount Street, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington. And it was glorious.

Isn't it nice," the older lady said, leaning in so that only Penelope could hear her words, "to discover that we're not exactly what we thought we were?" And then she walked away, leaving Penelope wondering if maybe she wasn't quite what she'd thought she was. Maybe—just maybe—she was something a little bit more.

Her hayatta bir dönüm noktas? vard?r.Bu öyle muazzam ,keskin ve belirgin bir and?r ki insan kendini göÄŸsünden vurulmuÅŸ gibi hisseder,nefesi kesilir ve bilir...Åžüphenin en ufak gölgesi olmaks?z?n hayat?n?n bir daha asla ayn? olmayaca??n? kesinlikle bilir.

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

Em toda vida ocorre um momento decisivo. Um instante tão extraordinário, tão claro e tão nítido que temos a sensação de havermos sido golpeados no peito, deixados sem fôlego, sabendo, sabendo, sem a menor sombra de dúvida, que nossa vida jamais será a mesma

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?

Now Early realized that a light had gone out, and

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

I'm forever realizing things too late.

A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that 'observes' to reason that 'acts'. That's what critical.

My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, 'You bastards.' I walked out and went to Waffle House. That's where I had what I call 'The Waffle House Epiphany': I didn't want to be a lawyer. I wanted to make a dent in the universe.