Quotes About Realization

The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

Hell is truth known too late.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

The accent was of so weird a lilt that at first Steerpike could not recognize more than one sentence in three, but he had quickly attuned himself to the original cadence and as the words fell into place Steerpike realized that he was staring at a poet.

It doesn't necessarily have to be about getting anywhere, but about getting through the process of fulfilling your own possibilities.

And that was when you realized the fire was inside you all the time. And that was the miracle. Just that.

Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him

It was then that Max, who had never before in all this time considered the matter, realized that all men, no matter what their estate, were in possession of shining immortal souls.

At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon.

Such regrets would come only belatedly, a few days after, when he made the realization that death really did mean that you were never going to see the dead person ever again. What he regretted most of all just now was simply that he had not been there when it happened; that he had left to his mother, grandfather, and brother the awful business of watching his father die.

I found out who I was.

He had always known that he would be lost without his job and his badge and his mission. In that moment he came to realize that he could be just as lost with it all. In fact, he could be lost because of it. The very thing he thought he needed the most was the thing that drew the shroud of futility around him.

I crawled up the embankment to Earl. I knew right away that he was dead.

You're lyin' in horseshit," Toad said. "Oh God, it's true.

Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book.

It's hardly ever the destination we've been anticipating, is it? Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing. Where did we--the species, that is--pick up that strange and perverse habit?

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.

He pours himself more coffee, draws out a final, really final, line on the tabletop. Maybe he's just not Ã¢â'¬Â¦ awake enough to be gifted. Maybe one day, why not today, he'll bust out of his lifelong drowse.

Were you relieved, maybe just a little, when they lifted you up (you weighed almost nothing by then) and shoved you into the oven? Did it seem unanticipated but right, somehow - did it strike you as satisfying, as a fate finally realized - when they slammed the door behind you?

You might say that, while going to work on the business, people begin to realize that it is a powerful metaphor for going to work on their lives.

Si può essere perfettamente convinti di desiderare una cosa, magari per anni interi, fintanto si sa che il desiderio non è realizzabile. Ma nel momento stesso in cui, all'improvviso, ci si trova di fronte alla possibilità ch'esso si trasformi in realtà, allora non si ha più che un solo desiderio: non averlo desiderato mai.

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