Quotes About Realization

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

To have your face rolled down over your eyes and not even to notice your blindness. That's dead, I think, as dead as it's possible to be.

Skop screamed when they all looked at him, shouted it was all a trick, and had to be clubbed unconscious when he attacked the bowmen. Understanding had come to Pyrrus.

I could say. "Well I damn well knew what

I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were.

I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.

You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive.

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose, began the man. You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

If I had to say anything it'd be this: Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting

I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of -- that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect...I find that encouraging.

Now that I can no longer see you, I realize how much I needed you

Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed

I'm forever realizing things too late.

It was like a tight knot inside me was gradually loosening, a knot I'd never even realized, until then, was there.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

cuando uno es joven, siempre cree que todo va a salir bien. Pero para cuando uno se da cuenta de que no es así, ya es demasiado tarde

We'd mistaken our few experiences swimming in the river for the wisdom of actually knowing a place. How could we have been so wrong?

The cat looked at its paws and frantically back at its body, as if it had just been transformed into a cat and couldn't accept it.

Felix was in his room singing into a tape recorder then playing it back and exclaiming, "My God. Do I actually sound like this? All this time I thought that I was a great singer, but I don't have any talent whatsoever!

If the Holy Spirit ever touches people in such a way that they realize they are sons or daughters instantly, we ought to celebrate it as a mighty miracle—because sometimes it takes fourteen years.