Quotes About Realization

Living on the edge wasn't about danger, he realized. It was about curiosity; audacious curiosity, like

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize that their minds are ill. The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out—after the trouble is over—what was the matter with our minds.

Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

One day you wake up and you're old as shit.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Opportunity comes often, but is only recognised once.

You could have been the light of your world. But you never found your switch.

No, Hanson, this is not the scene where the girl puts on a skirt and some paint and her schoolmate, who's a little thick, suddenly realizes that she is his true love." "Oh," Ash said. "Good to know.

Han struggled to remember Master Leontus's lectures on healing, the recitations he'd drowsed through. I'll never have need of that, Han had thought. I'm being trained to kill people, not heal them. He'd thought everyone he'd ever want to heal was already dead. He'd been wrong.

I'm beginning to realize that revenge is never as satisfying as you think it will be.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

Those who marry to escape something usually find something else.

As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

She sometimes found herself standing in the barn watching her fowl pecking the seed, feeling happy until she realised she wasn't.

It was one of those moments when life's disguises are stripped away, when you see clearly what is real, and all you can say to yourself is "useful to get that learned.

It's a matter of visualizing what you want and then making it happen.

I've never before understood that I too can be needed and wanted. I've been the youngest child for so long that I never seen myself any other way.

Se não tivesse sido eu, eu não saberia, e tendo sido eu, eu soube.

I feel as though I've already achieved what I wanted and I still don't know what I achieved. Could that be the somewhat dubious and elusive thing vaguely called 'experience'?

Com surpresa descobriu que o conhecia profundamente. Apenas superficialmente é que o desconhecia.

For the first time in my life there was a full now. This was the greatest brutality that I had ever come up against.

Anyone who lives knows even without knowing that he or she knows. So dear reader,you know more than imagine however much you may deny it.

I shall never be able to understand it, but there must be someone who can. And I shall have to create that someone who can inside myself.