Quotes About Realization

Wait. So what am I supposed to do now? You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey. (222-223)

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which you realize that you are trapped in a world almost entirely devoid of reason. Laughter is how you release the anxiety you feel at this knowledge.

I'm always lonely when I'm on my own—a leftover I think from the Demon, who always struck when I was alone—but towards the end of filming I realized that I was going to be lonelier when I returned to my home and family.

I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy

You have understood me better than I wanted, as the man said when he looked in the mirror.

It was in this instant of confusion that I realized for the first time that I am in some degree insane.

that's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you.

It was in this instant of confusion that I realized for the first time that I am in some degree insane. It could be argued that it was the most harrowing of my life.

But if they realize that their true freedom consists in the acceptance of principles, of laws which are the own, a synthesis of universal and particular interests becomes possible.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

They don't want an educated populace capable of critical thought, sitting around the kitchen table realizing how badly they're getting fucked!

Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.

I daresay some would never get their eyes opened if it were not for a violent shock from the consequences of their own actions

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.--

a terrible scorching light showed him the hidden letters that changed the meaning of the past.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned.

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

I can't believe that I just won a gold medal. I think it will take a bit to sink in.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin.

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.