Quotes About Realization

she realized she felt happy, as if the sensation were so lost to her that it took a while for her to identify it.

Good God. He doesn't know me at *all*. How crushing. How illuminating. How ... potentially very useful.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

son. This was a revelation. The more she considered

To know, according to Wisdom, does not mean "to think", but to be the thing known: to live it, to realise it inwardly. One does not really know a thing unless one can actively transform one's consciousness into it.

The sun never knew how wonderful it was," the architect Louis Kahn said, "until it fell on the wall of a building

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

You can't force yourself into something you can't understand, you know.

Opravdu straÅ¡ná situace je asi ta, o níž si uvÄ›domujeme, že je straÅ¡ná.

Being a clown would be all right, but I did not want to be a clown unaware that he was one.

Sometimes responsibility sneaked up on you without your seeing it coming, and then, very suddenly, it wouldn't let you go anymore.

A veil was, as it were, suddenly stripped away from a reality that had been there all the time, but which we had not seen before.

dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally Socrates and his friends analyzed a topic, something always eluded them.

Sophia stood staring blankly up the stairs for an entire minute before it dawned on her that he'd used the kiss to befuddle her. Blast it all! She fumed to herself as she walked to the front window and stationed herself there. Time went by. The clock ticked. A bee buzzed against the windowpane. Dust settled. After thirty minutes had passed, Sophia had had enough. She gave the empty lane one last glance, then went upstairs.

But love? True love? As wretched as loneliness could be, it was nothing compared to the pain of betrayal. He'd seen with his own eyes what "love" did to a person—how it built hopes that were rarely, if ever, realized. Falling in love meant being weak, vulnerable to the whims of another.

When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.

Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.

It's hard to send someone to their death," she said, answering his silent question. His expression was hidden behind the visor of his helmet. She didn't need to call on any of her abilities as a Jedi to know what he was thinking: one day she would do the same to men like him. The realization caught her unawares. "You'll get used to it," he said. She doubted it.

What happens to people when they realize they're never going to die? Wow. The whole human existence is predicated on inevitable death.

I didn't know how to be with a man who wanted to be with me." The softness had drained away. "I was addicted to Kenny's uncertainty, that niggling little doubt in my gut that made me wonder if I could survive without him. I thought I could fix the pain inside of him. It took me a long time to realize that the pain was inside of me.

En eso consistía la vida: nunca te das cuenta de lo que pasa hasta que te detienes un momento para observarlo con calma.

Will let out a breath he felt like he'd been holding his entire life.

I see you, she told him. I see exactly who you are.

Theory becomes realized among a people only in so far as it represents the realization of that people's needs.