Quotes About Epiphany

Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there.

Initially, a simple phrase chased round and round in Cecilia's thoughts: Of course, of course. How had she not seen it? Everything was explained. The whole day, the weeks before, her childhood. A lifetime. It was clear to her now. Why else take so long to choose a dress, or fight over a vase, or find everything so different, or be unable to leave? What had made her so blind, so obtuse?

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Inspiration is a really hard thing to describe, but it's something that triggers your brain, like the first time I heard a certain guitar player that I loved or the first time that I saw a monster or the first time that I saw anything that really was an epiphany for me. It just stays with you your whole life.

I went on a road trip and ended up in Portland, Oregon, and from there, I did non-stop theater. I had just graduated, and I had all these ideas about what good acting was, but I hadn't put any of it into action. I spent five years honing my acting chops. And then I had this epiphany one day that I need to go to L.A.; I need to be on a sitcom.

Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."

I've always loved those movies where somebody thinks they want something, and then they realize that the thing they really want is right in front of them.

I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.

Friend, I have remembered something.

He felt as if he was on the brink of a vast understanding-he could almost feel its intense shine within his mind, and yet the meaning evaded him. The scintillant ideas burst like shimmering bubbles of glass even as his imagination encountered them.

I have lived with the knowledge of the meaning of my name for a long time.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.

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

He'd explode and in a flash you'd see something anew, and you were never the same again.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

You can find something truly important in a minute.

He wasn't going to let her in. The realization came like the dawn: gradually then all at once.

I turned back and tried again, and once more I was sure that I was understanding, and all of it made perfect sense - better than perfect sense, even; it had the feeling of truth, of something that I'd always known and just hadn't ever put into words, or of explaining clearly and plainly something I'd never understood.

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Sometimes the very thing I am looking for is staring me straight in the face, but I can't see it.

There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.

A free fall from joy to.. Truth.