Quotes About Epiphany

She knows she is in Chicago. But she does not yet realize that she is in Illinois.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.

From shadows and symbols into the truth.

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

A moment will come in everyone's life, when you will be able to figure out things clearly. So instead of getting confused now, wait for that moment.

Like Ward Cleaver finding out that June had

You could go along for years thinking you knew a person's story and then come upon a chapter that knocked your socks off.

Destiny is when you find something you were never looking for and then realize that you never wanted anything else.

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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

New discoveries are old discoveries just realized.

wand. Until then, because I had not understood, I had not seen.

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

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

Precise language surprises like a dancer's extra second of stillness in mid-air; word and experience come together in an irreproducible moment of epiphanic delight. The next time the word appears, it may have a different feel or color or emphasis. Contexts change; usage changes; assigned meaning shifts; words accrue rings of history like trees and become more dense with life.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

So, I was driving today and I had an epiphany. Being young only lasts so long, you have your whole life to be an adult.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." —DORIS LESSING Ordinary

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." —DORIS LESSING

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the toast, choosing gray socks over brown. But here's the thing: just because we haven't understood something doesn't mean we haven't been shaped by it.