Quotes About Epiphany

This is the true meaning of alone; Levi Jedediah Calder suddenly realizing he no longer exists.

His life did not so much flash before his eyes, as slap him in the face

Epiphanies are never convenient, and often arrive too late.

And you'll cry out my name you'll finally know what you should have known So very long ago.

I remember where I was when I heard Yngwie Malmsteen for the first time. It was such an epiphany for me, and it really shaped the way I play today. I think I heard him in '83, if I'm not mistaken - I was 13 years old - and it really was amazing for me.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Y así, al haber encontrado todo, supe que lo había perdido. Y supe que yo no volvería nunca más, y que la magia perdida no volvería nunca.

It had all dropped into place, like the last bit of the jigsaw, which you thought all along was a bit of left-hand sky, but when you turn it over you realise it's the last chunk of right-hand sea, or the sky tricksily reflected in the surface of the pond.

Minds were made for blowing.

You are blowing my mind.

Then they'd looked at each other, realization

I realized my easy scorn had betrayed an ignorance I did not want to live with. The epiphany was ethical, but it led to musical enjoyment.

Sometimes the things you search far and wide for are right under your nose.

Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.

There's much to be said for taking people unawares. You never know what you might learn.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.

I like being surprised by someone. Surprised, too, by myself.

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific–and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise– Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

There should be a word, I thought, for this experience when you're surprised but at the same time the moment feels completely inevitable.