Quotes About Realization

I am son of man and woman, so they tell me. That astounds me . . . I thought myself more!

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.

There are few things more liberating in life than having your worst fear realized.

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

You have no idea what you have done.

Sometimes, whether a man lived or died was down to luck. He did not know if that realization made him value his own life more or less. If death could come because you chose the wrong door leading out into the sun, perhaps there was no sense to any of it - just the fifth horseman. He shrugged, putting such thoughts aside.

she had meant to woo him. In her own weird, unsettling way she had simply been courting him and he'd been too stupid to realize it.

I rocked you in my arms and I realized that none of us had ever been enough for Brick McGinty.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

O problema do prazer estético é sempre, antes de mais nada, um problema de atenção, e um mundo de prazeres é uma promessa que se realiza só para quem sabe prestar atenção.

He hung naked on the cross. I had not known—I had not thought. . . . The paintings, the carved crucifixes showed at the least a scrap of cloth. But this, I suddenly knew, was the respect and reverence of the artist. But oh—at the time itself, on that other Friday morning—there had been no reverence. No more than I saw in the faces around us now.

Not yet has my heart or headIn the least way realizedThey and I are civilized.

It was terrifying to realize life goes on without you.

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifting the whole time and never realized it until we couldn't find our way back.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

Life is like that." He flipped through a few more limp pages. "You collect things as you go—the things you think are important—and soon they weigh you down until you realize that these things you cared so much about mean nothing at all. Our natures are our natures." He grunted. "And they are all we are left with.

You collect things as you go—the things you think are important—and soon they weigh you down until you realize that these things you cared so much about mean nothing at all. Our natures are our natures." He grunted. "And they are all we are left with.

You would do well to consider this: all men may be brought to evil by what they hold most important, although few are ever made to realize this. For you, however, this truth will henceforth be inescapable, and will ever be a burden. Yet, as with all knowledge, it may also be a source of strength. Face it, use it, and it will make you far greater than any of those who remain in happy ignorance.

And it happens like that. Like when you first realize that there is no such thing as magic. Or that nothing actually answers your prayers, or really even listens. That cold moment of dismay where your feet are kicked from under you, where you're disarmed by a shard of knowing.

And it happens like that. Like when you first realise that there is no such thing as magic.

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.