Quotes About Realization

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

Ev­ery­thing they be­lieved in turned out to be wrong.

Noth­ing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list

Hay gente que nace humana. Al resto nos cuesta toda la vida conseguirlo.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list...Seeing it down in black and white, somehow you're always disappointed in your life expectancy. How little you'll get done. The resume of your future.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

I'm not stupid, but I'm getting there.

Crying is right at hand when you see how everything you ever accomplished will end up as trash.

Ich hatte die ganze Zeit gedacht, die beiden ziehen über meinen Großvater her, aber dann wurde mir klar, die meinten mich. Das heißt, natürlich meinten sie irgendeinen verrückten Killer, aber das war immer noch ich, die ich da in Häschenpantoffeln und Pelzmantel saß.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Wait- there was a book?

your past is just a story. and once you realize this, it has no power over you

So never dictate meaning to your reader. If need be, misdirect him. But always allow him to realize the truth before you state it outright. Trust your readers' intelligence and intuition, and they will return the favor.

An epiphany was a useful revelation about the world around you; an apophany was a revelation, too, but wrong in that you had incorrectly discerned a pattern where none had existed, taking enlightenment from an untrue thing.

Sometimes you have to lose a lot of Q-tips before you realize you have a hole in your head. Colors Insulting To Nature

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want.

it took me a long time to realize that she, too, was cautious and bourgeois, frightened of the unknown and so uncertain of herself that she could hardly bear to make a mark.

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

Anne, I'm sorry about your pa… all this time… all that waitin'. All that time? she said, taking a step toward him. You were waiting for him. He was all you ever wanted. I know it, and I'm sorry, he said. Jack, she said, her voice husky and soft. It was you, she said. It was you all that time, all those years. I was waiting… for you. - Jack & Anne

To understand a company's strategy, look at what they actually do rather than what they say they will do.

Finally, slowly, like a newly lighted oil lamp gathering kerosene up into its wick, Wally's face began to glow. He turned to Mack Fulton. "Mack, you know what's on my mind?

through the door and immediately realized their luck was about to run out. Linda mumbled a curse in their ears

I knew it. We've expired and gone to Disneyland.