Quotes About Epiphany

It just all of a sudden came over me, so that in one breath I was lost and a stranger, and in the next I was found.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

the Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it is preceded by the Huh? experience.

Defining moments rewire our understanding of ourselves or the world.

Moments of insight deliver realizations and transformations.

Sometimes, in life, we can't get our bearings until we trip over the truth.

The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.

Fuck)! Jim cried, and certainly it felt like a generative word. It felt like he was using it correctly for the first time, like saying Jesus! when you saw Him in a piece of blackened toast, or Oh my God! when a bush in your backyard happened spontaneously to burst into flame.

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

Es gibt so Momente, in denen ich alles genau verstehe, [...] und dann plötzlich entgleitet mir wieder alles.

A veces se ve algo cien, mil veces, antes de verlo de verdad por primera vez.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. —MADELEINE L'ENGLE, The Arm of the Starfish

Jeez Louise, this is why

That was when he'd fully understood that neither of them had every understood the other. A marriage couldn't survive that sort of epiphany, and their had been over just a few weeks later.

Funny to do something and then realise the reason for it afterwards.

Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

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

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy!

Sometimes you find yourself digging around for something useful, and you don't necessarily know what it is until you find it. Sometimes it's a word from a book that you read every day.

Every day, I discover something utterly unbelievable when I play.

And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe.

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.