Quotes About Realization

She was humming something melancholy and familiar. I strained to make it out—a folk song? a lullabye?—and then realized it was the theme to M*A*S*H. Suicide is painless. I went downstairs.

I had that overwhelming feeling I get when I'm about to give up on a plan, that big rush of air when I realize that my stroke of genius has flaws, and I don't have the brains or energy to fix them. It

Oh, here's the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine. That fast. You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

Tutto troppo semplice, come avremmo capito molti anni dopo. Lentamente, e con fatica, avremmo scoperto che il mondo non era esattamente a due colori, ma che in mezzo ci poteva stare un'infinità di sfumature.

It is true, you know, although I cried, oh so many times when I thought of those people they were killing, I never never knew there were children too, or even women. I, too, rationalized it I suppose; I told myself, I suppose, that we were at war and that they were killing the men;

All at once, Darren's voice called, I've got it! It's here!

It's like living your whole life without ever looking in a mirror, Amy thought, and suddenly you see your reflection, and you're a monster.

When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end.

He felt the sad relief of a man who realizes that there is one love at least that no longer hurts him.

It's my destiny. Sometimes you're confronted with things in your life and you realise that you have to deal with them. You don't have a choice, because that's what you were born for

There are always people you care about," he said. "You just don't realize how much until a bad man points a gun at them. Or until they leave…

There was a thin chain to thinking, he realized, which began with seeing something noticeable, which in time made you see something that wasn't apparent, which finally made you see something that wasn't even visible—if you were doing it right.

His simple, unbeautiful words were the clearest expression of what all prisoners, and everyone else who lives long enough, know well—that suffering, of every kind, is always a matter of what we've lost. When we're young, we think that suffering is something that's done to us. When we get older—when the steel door slams shut, in one way or another—we know that real suffering is measured by what's taken away from us.

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I was helpless to stop it, and I knew it.

My heart broke on its shame and sorrow. I suddenly knew how much crying there was in me, and how little love. I knew, at last, how lonely I was.

I knew that my life, there and then, was no more than a handful of sand squeezed into my clenched fist.

I was almost angry that she'd made me see the unlovely truth of my house.

It wasn't until I'd asked myself the question that I realized I already had the answer.

Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

When news of the first plane's hitting the World Trade Center reached them, bin Laden's followers exploded with joy. But shrewder members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan realized that the attacks might not be the stunning victory that bin Laden, and many in the West, took them to be.

I didn't realise the depth of horror that happened in the Second World War every day.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.