Quotes About Epiphany

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

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

You can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth.

I felt that lightning bolt you feel when someone speaks a hard truth you've always known but never heard anyone say out loud.

She never thought she was that kind of girl; now she knew there wasn't any other.

Mercy?" "Just a minute," I told Adam. "I'm in the middle of a revelation.

And I feel her against me - And I think Viola - I think VIOLA! - I think VIOLA!!!!

And for a second, for a minute, forever, every nerve in my body is right there, right at the point where we're touching. And boom, I think. That's it.

Sometimes finding nothing can be finding something.

Nothing is ever solved, Solving is an illusion. There are moments of spontaneous brightness, when the mind appears emancipated, but this is more epiphany.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

You already speak German; you just don't know it yet.

when you reach a point where you can distinguish between the things you thought you wanted and the things you actually need, that is an epiphany.

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

Sometimes this epiphany brings a great relieving certainty that fragile self-esteem, frequent flashbacks, and recurring reenactments of unsupportive relationships were caused by the closed hearts of your parents.

3. Me ha pillado en el ¡Ajá!

No habrá concluido su tarea hasta que digan «¡Ajá! ¡Ya lo entiendo!»

But lying one night in my old bunk under a wide open window listening to a screech owl trying to terrify me with a woman's screams and only making me happy—the bittersweet cry of undigestible beauty and great impending loss—then it came to me: the obvious epiphany that he was reliving his life. Doh. Slide by slide, picture by picture. He was aggregating memory like a wall against extinction and the little boxes of slides were his bricks.

Most of us have one BIG IDEA at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.