Quotes About Revelation

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.