Quotes About Realization

As Hunter fell asleep a strange thought came to him... he was falling in love with his wife.

Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.

You really love to gossip, don't you?" he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine. "Yes, I suppose I do," she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. "You think that's why I love reading novels so much?

I am taking this in, slowly, Taking it into my body. This grief. How slow The body is to realize You are never coming back.

Lauren calls this one Revelation.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Why don't we like them?" Katalin asked. "Because they don't treat us right." After Zoltán said it, he marveled at the realization that in trying to clarify years of abuses and lists of grievances, that in trying to make oppression understandable for a child, he had reduced the horror of Soviet domination to one simple, honest statement of fact: The Russians didn't treat the Hungarians right.

Maybe it was what I needed too. For all those years I told myself

turning out as I expected it would.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.

Secular conservatism is like trying to use your pocket handkerchief to slow you down after the main chute has failed. This

If John had been paying close attention to Lester's face, he would have seen him go white, the way men do when they see a trap swinging shut on them.

Don't wait to be discovered. Discover yourself.

I cant believe we really made it, Im partly surprised.

When the lights dont glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will realize you were everything Im missing and youll tell me youre in love with someone else.

Ive seen it all before. Now that its over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.