Quotes About Realization

Before my unfeeling eyes, the repressed bitterness of my whole life peels off the suit of natural joy it wears in the prolonged randomness of every day. I realize that I'm always sad, however happy or content I may often feel. And the part of me that realizes this stands a little behind me...

Nós nunca nos realizamos. Somos dois abismos – um poço fitando o Céu.

Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody.

M-au încercat mari ambiÅ£ii ÅŸi am avut visuri nem?surate,dar tot aÅŸa au ÅŸi b?iatul de comisioane sau cus?toreasa,fiind vorba de visuri pe care ÅŸi le face toat? lumea:ne deosebeÅŸte doar forÅ£a de a le realiza sau norocul de a le vedea realizate.

Noi non ci realizziamo mai. Siamo due abissi - un pozzo che fissa il cielo.

Oggi, all'improvviso, sono giunto a una sensazione assurda e giusta. Mi sono reso conto, in un lampo, che non sono nessuno. Nessuno, assolutamente nessuno.

One can see only what one has already seen.

I am beginning to be conscious of being conscious.

To realize I don't remember myself means that I've woken up.

Tenho pensamentos que, se conseguisse realizá-los e torná-los vivos, acrescentariam uma nova luz às estrelas, uma nova beleza ao mundo e um maior amor ao coração dos homens.

Desceu sobre nós a mais profunda e a mais mortal das secas dos séculos - a do conhecimento íntimo da vacuidade de todos os esforços e da vaidade de todos os propósitos.

To realize that who we are is not ours to know, that what we think or feel is always a translation, that what we want is not what we wanted, nor perhaps what anyone wanted – to realize all this at every moment, to feel all this in every feeling – isn't this to be foreign in one's own soul, exiled in one's own sensations?

Sólo la abstención es noble y alta, porque reconoce que la realización es siempre inferior y que la obra hecha es siempre la sombra grotesca de la obra soñada.

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which, instant by instant, gives life to the soul. It is a concern with a realization that breeds charity and with the charity that breeds action. Often the nature of grace can be made plain only by describing its absence.

My dear God, I am impressed with how much I have to be thankful for in a material sense; and in a spiritual sense I have the opportunity of being even more fortunate. But it seems apparent to me that I am not translating this opportunity into fact.

Every man's got to find themselves, and I found myself in bloody Western Australia, of all places - there was as far away as I could.

Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.

It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

I never realized I was a feminist.

I remember a festival we did in Denmark with the Clapton band where you suddenly realize it's an actual band - and you're on an equal stage playing music together.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.