Quotes About Realization

Even to the young who look me, it is a difficult realization that they might become as pale and hard as I am.

You squirm on the end of a hook, you're a doomed catch from the sea, and you do not even know that you are no longer in the life-sustaining water.

Pandora! How could you let such a thing happen? And no sooner had I asked such a question than I realized I was quarreling with her as I had done so often of old.

to be showered on you again simply because now you know their worth.

Why hadn't I realized that I was bringing into her presence one of the most alluring beings I've ever know?

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over my lips, my hands!

I had seen it with my own eyes, this obsession. I had seen it in a matter of moments in a riverfront tavern, but I had known it for what it was.

But there sometimes comes a moment, a small, silent white explosion of awareness.

Funny how you have to picture losing a thing before you think you might value it after all.

You would think this realization would come as a relief to him. And it did, in part. He felt a rush of love for his whole family, whom it seemed he had underestimated. He had thought that guarding his secret was a kindness to them; he was protecting them from knowledge that would hurt them. But now he saw that not telling them had been more hurtful, and it was they who had been kind.

The only place I went wrong, he writes, was expecting things to be perfect. Abruptly, he signals for a turn, and when the light changes he heads east instead of continuing north.

How was it that she had never realized the power of the young back when she was young herself?

What if marrying Shelley meant that she would end up just like him, unable to realize a thing's happening or a moment's passing? What if it were like a contagious disease, so that soon she would be wandering around in a daze and incapable of putting her finger on any given thing and saying, that is that?

You wake in the morning, you're feeling fine, but all at once you think, "Something's not right. Something's off somewhere; what is it?" And then you remember

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on.

Even then, her mind had started to change, realizing that nature didn't need an operation to make it beautiful, it just was.

happiness creeps up on you, does it not? You never see it arrive, but one day you hesitate and you are aware that there is something... additional

One day, when you are grown up, you suddenly become aware that something has gone

The strongest foundation we can find is the realization that there isn't a foundation.

For the first time in her life Tomoe came to the realization that there are fools and fools. A man who loves others with an open-hearted simplicity, who trusts others, no matter who they are, even if he is deceived or even betrayed-- such a man in the present-day world is bound to be written off as a fool. And so he is. But not just an ordinary fool. He is a wonderful fool. He is a wonderful fool who will never allow the little light which he sheds along man's way to go out.

The first step toward power is to accept reality

Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.

Geoffrey looked startled to see both his great-uncles bearing down upon him with such haste; he hadn't realized men their age could move so fast.