Quotes About Epiphany

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you.

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you. Now it's hitting me.

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid, and I discovered that letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been

In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

But I reckon to tell you there are soft truths, too. It doesn't always have to be like running into a wall. Sometimes it's just like waking up.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside to see what it was.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was.

And just when I thought it would never happen to me…

And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.

Oh. So that's what that is. Huh. Problem solved, I guess.

This is all true. So much so that the simplicity of the words feels about as right as a sunrise over mountains or the gasp of knowing that occurs when you realize for the first time that you understood something you'd been trying to grasp for years, and the difficulty wasn't in its complexity but its simplicity. There was something you'd been missing, something you didn't even know to look for.

Perhaps far outward on the rim of space a genuine star was similarly seized and flung... For a moment, we cast on an infinite beach together, beside an unknown hurler of suns... I have caught a glimpse of what man may be, along an endless wave beaten coast at dawn

Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.

Experience is what you get when you didn't know what you wanted.

It wasn't until later that I would realize that I was babbling a chant of "Ubriacha, ubrius, ubrium," to the Peanuts theme music.

It was that last phrase that did it. It hit me like a bucket of cold water. Maggie.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

It happens in an instant, when life becomes startlingly new and frightening and profound, and you turn to the person next to you and see that they feel it too.

Surely some revelation is at hand.