Quotes About Epiphany

...Realization is born from error...

He stumbled out of his phlegmatic apathy, when she entered his life like an epiphany.

I stopped talking and stared into the distance. Hold on, I whispered. I think I'm about to be brilliant. -Nina Tanleven, The Ghost Wore Gray

So beautiful! I had no idea! I had no idea...

It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you had always wanted to do it, or even what it was

I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

I was called Kit from day one; really, I only found out my name was Christopher when I was 11.

It wasn't an 'event.' It was a motherfucking revelation.

A dutiful soldier, I retreated to the ditches as ordered and hunkered down there. In those ditches, I had an epiphany. People treat you as badly as you let them treat you.

He breaks off, and I gasp as, abruptly, what we're seeing makes perfect sense.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

In the twinkling of an eye a veil is lifted; and you see with other eyes and hear with other ears and are given another understanding.

And to see her almost made him want to cry. It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely obvious solution. There's Sadie, he thought. Yes.

It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely obvious solution.

It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.

Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!

One of the great joys of science is to understand something for the first time–to really understand, which is very different from, and far more satisfying than, knowing the facts.

That dizzying feeling of confusion, if (hopefully) followed by an epiphany of clarity, is the joy of science. If the reader is feeling the former, we hope to deliver the latter by the end of the book.

You know," she had said, "I believe we are all given at least one moment in our lives when the world reveals itself to us, in all its workings. We comprehend everything at once, and then forget almost all of it a second later, because none of us could hold it all in our heads. But we are changed afterward," shaking her head, "in a most profound way.

y ocurrió que casi al terminar el cigarrillo el hombre se golpeó la frente dijo carajo que es el equivalente nacional de eureka y se detuvo

The minute I saw it, I felt that here was the place I'd been looking for.

Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.