Quotes About Epiphany

When I know, I know that in some way I shall find That I have always known it. And that will be better.

Cuando te cae en la cabeza, entonces te das cuenta de que es una piedra. Binabik

My mind filled with a knowing that set my bloodstream on fire and transported me to a different kind of awareness. With my eyes open to the kingdom of heaven, I saw.

I suspected you were tired of looking for things you should have found a long time ago. ~ Jared

One day as I am holding baby and feeding her, I realize that this is exactly the state of mind and heart that so many male writers from Thomas Mann to James Joyce describe with yearning—the mystery of an epiphany, the sense of oceanic oneness, the great yes

I wish him episodes of glorious, sun-washed tedium and a loss of innocence he will contemplate for the rest of his life.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt.

Light itself is a revelation.

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'

Jerry didn't know he wanted to get married until he was married.

For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

And Rand opened his eyes for the first time in a very long while. He knew—somehow—that he would never again hear Lews Therin's voice in his head. For they were not two men, and never had been.

The profoundest lessons are not the lessons of reason; they are sudden strains that permanently warp the mind.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Nov. 2, 1837. Truth strikes us from behind, and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.

Open them? Open them! My God, Felicia," he said, wrapping his right arm around the waist of the curly-haired waitress, "I think Professor Taylor has cracked the code!

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

noetic quality. People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.