Quotes About Revelation

Rimasero così per un tempo interminabile, lui a fissare il pavimento, lo sguardo di lei verso il soffitto. Poi, nel silenzio, lui si rese conto che avevano raggiunto il punto più alto della consapevolezza di chi erano come individui e cosa significavano insieme. Era l'essenza di entrambi: i loro sbagli, percepiti e veri, erano sul tavolo, non avevano più segreti, e la loro eternità era ancora intatta.

Fucking. A." Well, didn't that just sum it all up nicely.

I tried to tell them. Before I left, I tried to tell them it was all going to come to a bad end. But you cannot feed the truth to people. They have to see it themselves if they're going to.

Apesar de respirar, estava morto até me encontrares. Apesar de ver, estava cego. Depois, vieste… e despertaste-me.

I'd have laughed on camera if Mark had told me for the first time on camera," Fisher says. "It would have been like, 'Carrie, your dad isn't Eddie Fisher. Hitler is.' 

The things you learn about your kids after the fact.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

He produced a black plastic box with a

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.

I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was 'Wow!

Every one of these things I said was a knife at myself. Everything I had ever secretly held against my brother was coming out: how ugly I was and what filth I was discovering in the depths of my own impure psychologies (214).

Of course world travel isn't as good as it seems, it's only after you've come back from all the heat and horror that you forget to get bugged and remember the weird scenes you saw

we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all around us was fragrant green grass and the smell of fresh manure and warm waters. 'We're in the South! We've left the winter!' Faint daybreak illuminated green shoots by the side of the road. I took a deep breath; a locomotive howled across the darkness, mobile-bound. So were we. I took off my shirt and exulted

the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams

We also spent entire nights in bed and I told her my dreams. I told her about the big snake of the world that was coiled in the earth like a worm in an apple and would someday nudge up a hill to be thereafter known as Snake Hill and fold out upon the plain, a hundred miles long and devouring as it went along. I told her this snake was Satan. What's going to happen? she squealed; meanwhile she held me tight.

I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds.

A blessed night. I immediately fell into a blank thoughtless trance wherein it was again revealed to me "This thinking has stopped" and I sighed because I didn't have to think any more and felt my whole body sink into a blessedness surely to be believed, completely relaxed and at peace with all the ephemeral world of dream and dreamer and the dreaming itself.

And of course now no one can tell us that there is no God. We've passed through all forms. You remember, Sal, when I first came to New York and I wanted Chad King to teach me about Nietzsche. You see how long ago? Everything is fine, God exists, we know time. Everything since the Greeks has been predicted wrong. You can't make it with geometry and geometrical systems of thinking. It's all this!

I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.