Quotes About Epiphany

son. This was a revelation. The more she considered

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

A veil was, as it were, suddenly stripped away from a reality that had been there all the time, but which we had not seen before.

savored the bizarre moment of epiphany; he had a sister, of sorts. And he had a wife, too, and a father, a legal one, and he had brothers. He was like any other man. The out-of-reach normal life that had tormented him was now fully his. It was wonderful, even if very few beings had a family as strife-prone, heavily armed, and bizarre as this. "But he never forgets his kids." "I always knew he'd come back.

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'

...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

Things always become obvious after the fact

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

revelation hit me like an ice-water enema.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different.

Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.