Quotes About Realization

We make great progress only at those times when we become melancholy—at those times when, discontented with the real world, we are forced to make for ourselves one more bearable. "The Theory of Ambition," an essay: JEAN-MARIE HÉRAULT DE SÉCHELLES

For a young reader that's an important moment, when you recognize that your self exists in the world and that your self exists in literature.

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

That's how you recognize love: you've never met it before.

Major Taniguchi slowly folded up the order, and for the first time I realized that no subterfuge was involved. This was no trick—everything I had heard was real. There was no secret message. The pack became still heavier. We really lost the war! How could they have been so sloppy?

Suddenly everything went black. A storm raged inside me. I felt like a fool for having been so tense and cautious on the way here. Worse that that, what had I been doing for all these years? Gradually the storm subsided, and for the first time I really understood: my thirty years as a guerrilla fighter for the Japanese army were abruptly finished. This was the end.

When I returned to Japan, I learned that it really had been my brother.

There is a moment when you realise that you and your parent are not the same person, and it usually occurs when you are both consumed by a similar passion.

I like him, he thought in horror... shit. I like him.

She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

I need to make her realize that even terrible memories are better than weird gaps or the hollowness of your feelings not making sense.

Jude, you cant really think I dont know its you. I knew it was you from the moment you stepped into the brugh. Page 69

they seemed like talismans that might actually keep the monsters at bay. Until she realized that she was one of the monsters.

Gazing at her for a long moment with something like horror, as though he was seeing her for the first time, he spoke. "You are more dangerous than daybreak.

When I met Eldred, he rode up on a milk-white steed, and all the imaginings of my life were as dust and ashes.

For the first time, I see the panic on his face, the sort that he ought to have felt all along. Too late, and part of him knows it. But he denies it a moment later, the knowledge surfacing and being shoved back down. Some things seem too terrible to seem possible.

Maybe I was unhappy for a lot of my marriage but didnt' realize it...She who is busy has no time to realize unhappiness. Now I have to wonder: why was I so busy in the first place? To fill a void I suspected was there but was afraid to acknowledge?

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

A statement on the political responsibility of the critic: the critic must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

Once you realize others know, you may be tempted to withdraw from society, suddenly feeling too exposed and vulnerable to others' criticism and stares.

Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don't notice it at all until one day you wake up and think, 'How did I get here?' But other times, life changes in an instant with a lightning stroke of good or bad luck with glorious or tragic consequences.