Quotes About Revelation

The whole thing, the way it all happened, was shattering. And what it shattered most of all was some conception I'd had of myself, some wholeness.

Perhaps one could not live with such knowledge. One might die for it, or of it.

Happy love undoes the self and makes the world visible. Unhappy love is, or can be, a revelation of pure suffering.

The lid has come off and whatever was inside it has certainly got out. Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder?

My God, that bloody casket has fallen on the floor! Some people were hammering in the next flat and it fell off its bracket. The lid has come off and whatever was inside it has certainly got out. Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder?

Prose literature can reveal an aspect of the world which no other art can reveal … and in the case of the novel, the most important thing to be thus revealed, not necessarily the only thing, but incomparably the most important thing, is that other people exist.

To describe one's character is difficult and not necessarily illuminating. The story which follows will reveal, whether I will or no, what sort of person I am.

He wanted to take her in his arms, he wanted to be utterly revealed to her, he wanted her to understand.

I must return to my freedom which I now realise is something so essential that it makes my love for you seem like death.

The painter and the writer are not just copyists or even illusionists, but through some deeper vision of their subject-matter may become privileged truth tellers.

The apparent scene is slowly falling to pieces revealing the reality behind.

What a terribly complex thing his life must be to be able so utterly to surprise its owner!

We all live in the interstices of each other's lives, and we would all get a surprise if we could see everything.

Bradley, my marriage is over. I think my life is probably over. What a poor affair it has been.

There was absolutely nothing that she could do with this huge emotion which she had so suddenly discovered in herself.

Kev shuddered. This was crazy, but there it was; his name, spelt by an insect... — Boab? Is that really you? Fuckin hell! Eh, buzz twice fir aye, once fir naw. Two buzzes. — Did eh, what's his name, did God dae this? Two buzzes. — Whit the fuck ur ye gaunny dae? Frantic buzzing. — Sorry Boab... kin ah git ye anything? Scran, likesay?

Even in your kindness there is a cruel revelation. Life is cruel, never love.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying.

And Elvex said, I was the man. - In Robot dreams (Short story)

You feel humiliated, my young man, because thinking you understood so much so well, you suddenly find that many very apparent things were unknown to you. Thinking you were one of the Lords of the Galaxy; you suddenly find that you stand near to destruction. Naturally, you will resent the ivory tower in which you lived; the seclusion in which you were educated; the theories on which you were reared.

You may uncover more and, eventually, what seems altogether a mystery to us now may unfold and become plain.

The mistiness of distance hides the truth