Quotes About Epiphany

Oh, dear. Sometimes it takes a very long while to figure things out.

One wouldn't have noticed it before, but now it was obvious. It was as though Ambrose had opened an inlet to something previously invisible, and Alma could finally see a truth she would otherwise have been blind to forever.

As if she'd merely sleepwalked through everything else in her life prior to his arrival.

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. Since then I have known this moment

They became aware of it suddenly just after four o'clock

It was now free of obviousness.

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

There's a deli around the corner from my office where I'd get a bag of chips with my sandwich, and I was hiding them under my sandwich because I was embarrassed. When I had this epiphany that I was hiding the potato chips from myself, I realized there was an opportunity there.

And then an event did occur, to Emily, of considerable importance. She suddenly realized who she was.ï¾  There is little reason that one can see why it should not have happened to her five years earlier, or even five later; and none, why it should have come that particular afternoon.ï¾ 

Let's jump ahead to the moment of epiphany, in gold light, as the camera pans to where the action is, lakeside and backlit, and it all falls into frame

I realized I'm in love. It's always been right in front of me.

And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.

Something was withheld . . . We found it was ourselves.

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

Closing Sohrab's door, 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.

Closing Sohrab's door, 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.

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

And L-M-N-O-P is not one letter, but five. It took me forever to figure that out.

Every moment an epiphany arrives, and cleaves the mountain asunder.

There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

realized he wasn't the one