Quotes About Realization

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

I feel like I'm a realized artist, but hey, the good news is I can get better, and I'm going to continue to aim for that.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

I went to an all-boys high school, and I didn't realize I was going to a Catholic all-boys school until right before I got there. I was so bummed that it was all boys.

I always thought that my dad is hilarious, but Ive learned as Ive gotten older that hes actually not funny. Hes just a very intense person with very dry humor.

That's no moon," Kenobi breathed softly.

I looked, and saw: before her, cast from an unseen heavenly mirror, stood the reflection of herself, and beside it a form of splendent beauty. She trembled, and sank again on the floor helpless. She knew the one that God had intended her to be, the other that she had made herself.

What a horror will it not be to a vile man…when his eyes are opened to see himself as the pure see him, as God sees him! Imagine such a man waking all at once, not only to see the eyes of the universe fixed upon him with loathing astonishment, but to see himself at the same moment as those eyes see him.

Everything in the world is more or less misunderstood at first: we have to learn what it is, and come at length to see that it must be so, that it could not be otherwise. Then we know it; and we never know a thing really until we know it thus.

It is strange, but so it is, that many a man never sees himself until he becomes aware of the eyes of other men fixed upon him; they seeing him, and he knowing that they see him, then first, even to himself, will he confess what he may have long all but known.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him.

He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.

But at any rate, one thing was certain. The conspiracy that he had dreamed of did exist, and he had reached the outer edges of it.

Nearly all soldiers, and this applies even to professional soldiers in peacetime, have a sane attitude towards war. They realise that it is disgusting, and that it may often be necessary

But, he realised, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the ink was wet.

Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness.

Orang mengorbankan diri mereka demi komunitas fragmentaris – bangsa, ras, keyakinan, kelas – dan baru menyadari bahwa mereka bukan individu ketika mereka disongsong peluru.

Il paradiso terrestre era caduto in discredito proprio quando la sua realizzazione era diventata possibile.

He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. He realized, nevertheless, that it ought never to have occurred to him. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.

Thou speakest with true inspiration, Bansir. Thou bringeth to my mind a new understanding. Thou makest me to realize the reason why we have never found any measure of wealth. We never sought it.

Thou makest me to realize the reason why we have never found any measure of wealth. We never sought it.

El deseo debe preceder a la realización. Vuestros deseos tienen que ser fuertes y bien definidos. Los deseos vagos no son más que débiles deseos.