Quotes About Realization

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

She found what she had been searching for.

So beautiful! I had no idea! I had no idea...

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it

Sometimes we sleep too long in the afternoon and when we wake we find things changed, Signora.

It was not so much a sense of failure that he had experienced as a sense of his own limitations. You cannot do everything you might wish that you could do.

But knowing it and accepting it are two different things.

but I am old. It is important to accept truths, even when they are inconvenient.

The room, rather than breaking into whispering, as Dalton expected, fell into a stunned, dead silence. Dalton then realized, for the first time, really, that he had been born and lived his entire life under the reign of the old Sovereign. An era had ended. Many in the room had to be thinking the same thing.

Some truths, after a certain point, could be felt viscerally, and at that point everything clicked with the finality of a dead bolt on a prison of truth.

It was like finding the other half of myself and being complete, whole, for the first time in my life.

Over the years it became clear that sometimes you fall in love only to realize you don't even like the person.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Winder's mind felt even fuzzier than it had done over the past few years, but he was certain about cake. He'd been eating cake, and now there wasn't any. Through the mists he saw it, apparently close but, when he tried to reach it, a long way away. A certain realization dawned on him. Oh, he said. YES, said Death. Not even time to finish my cake? NO. THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

As the eye of narrative drew back from the coffin on its stand, two things happened. One happened comparatively slowly, and this was Vargo's realisation that he never recalled the coffin having a pillow before. The other was Greebo deciding that he was as mad as hell and wasn't going to take it any more.

I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.

people went looking to find themselves and what they found was somebody else.

It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you had always wanted to do it, or even what it was

A certain realization dawned on him. 'Oh,' he said. YES, said Death. 'Not even time to finish my cake?' NO. THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE.

If you thought hard enough, he'd always considered, you could work out everything. The wind, for example. It had always puzzled him until the day he'd realized that it was caused by all the trees waving about.

It's the crudest insult he could fling at me, yet I manage to remain calm because nothing he says can hurt me now. I simply don't care. Instead I laugh. "You know, I've just realized something about you. You really are a bastard." "At least I'm not the one who wants to fuck the bush guide." "How do you know I haven't already?" He flings himself onto his side, turning his back to me.

Sometimes, thought Jane, the person who could make you happiest is the one you overlook, the one who waits patiently in the wings.

Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn't right. Everyone's brilliant in retrospect.