Quotes About Epiphany

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

It's a bang on the head that births up whole sciences.

In Paul's story we find the archetypal spiritual pattern, wherein people move from what they thought they always knew to what they now fully recognize. The pattern reveals itself earlier in the Torah when Jacob "wakes from his sleep" on the rock at Bethel and says, in effect, "I found it, but it was here all the time! This is the very gate of heaven" (Genesis 28:16–17).

And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing, Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly oaks and elms And the sooty details of the scene rose, thrusting themselves between the world and me....

When he stepped off the train in Waverley Station yesterday, he had been expecting the 50 percent of his genes that were Scottish to recognize their heritage. He thought perhaps he would discover an emotional link with a past he'd never known, walk down a street and the faces would feel familiar, turn a corner or climb a stair and there would be an epiphany of sorts, but in fact Edinburgh felt more foreign to him than Paris did.

Her words sounded the way all those things made him feel, as if the world, the real world, had been punched through, so that he could see something wonderful and dazzling on the other side of it.

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

I have this feeling, that all it will take will be one moment, even a tiny moment, provided it's the correct one. Like a cord suddenly snapping and a thick curtain dropping to the floor to reveal a whole new world, a world full of sunlight and warmth.

Bir gün, belki de çok yak?nda, nas?l olduÄŸunu hissetmeye baÅŸlayacaks?n.

You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

He had made his trip without quite realizing it.

Uno cree saber lo que busca, pero sólo al final, cuando lo encuentra, comprende realmente qué andaba buscando.

You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.

It should have been the epiphany of the sixties. Instead it turned out to be its requiem,

Sometimes is it okay to perpetuate the hoax of sincerity leading a centralized self to commodified epiphanic end-stops even though the context is perpetually deferred and everything flies apart especially me-ee-eee-eeee? Even

Epiphanies awaken the soul.

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

For rich people, holiday festivities were only beginning on December 25. They would continue enjoying feasts and gifts through Epiphany on January 6—these were the twelve days of Christmas. Poor people went back to work on December 26.

Getting lost is the only way to find what you didn't know you were looking for.