Quotes About Realization

It's official, then. Everyone knew I was gay before I did.

They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely.

The exemption from rudeness startled him. Reading it again, however, he realized that it didn't compel him to be rude; it simply allowed him the option

Jonas repeated it. "Love." It was a word and concept new to him.

He's changing, isn't he?" Matty replied, startling himself, because he had not spelled it out in his mind before, had not said it aloud yet, yet here it was, and he was saying it to Jean. He felt an odd sense of relief. Jean began to cry softly. "Yes," she said. "He has traded his deepest self.

Some men just aren't cut for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

I did not know what a prison I was in, till I was freed.

It came to Tej then, belatedly, that Lady Alys had just spent much of the prior conversation slowly, gently, and thoroughly roasting her son.

I think I was fourteen before I found out that Ivan wasn't your middle name.' Miles cut himself off. That-idiot-Ivan was beginning a lifetime of Imperial service tomorrow.

Oh look! I'm one of those!

I didn't know how much I could love until you were gone. Until your laughter no longer filled my home, your wicked high jinks no longer made me crazy. Until I stood in that damned club and knew, without you by side, my life was as empty as my bed was without you in it. I didn't know what love was, until I saw my refusal to admit it drown all the sweet innocence in your eyes. I love you.

You know how to be a good boy? Anna widened her eyes in surprise. Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.

You're fucking crazy, he finally said, as though just realizing that. Hell, he had been with her how long now? Surely forever. And he was just now seeing that? Poor guy, he was just slow.

Then came the recession and the end of the Bush boom, and with it came the realization that we were all worker drones paying off our bloated mortgages, bloodsucking corporations and even each other- we are the dead

She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!

I guessed that only at the last possible minute did the soul in a determined fashion flee the dying flesh. Who could blame it for its reluctance? We loved our lives more than we ever knew, and at the end felt the bounty of them, as one would say in church, felt even the richness of their missed opportunities, or just understood that they were more than we had realized during the living of them and a lot to give up.

I was realising that all new feelings from here on in would probably be bad ones. Surprises would no longer be good.

The present dispensation of the covenant of grace will continue until the return of Christ, when the covenant relation will be realized in the fullest sense of the word in a life of intimate communion with God.

This was the age when everyone wanted an empire and felt entitled to one, days of innocence perhaps, before the world realised, it it yet has, that empires were pointless and expensive, and their subject peoples rancorous and ungrateful.

The Cat She was licking The opened tin For hours and hours Without realising That she was drinking Her own blood. -spyros kyriazopoulos

As the days went by, I began to see this girl I had married was even more than I had suspected and in every way.

Suddenly a knowledge came upon me.

The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that our idols are very extraordinary men and women.