Quotes About Realization

He looked around the clearing in recognition that he was lost but didn't mind because he knew he had never been found.

I knew–though I didn't recognize the fact–that I wasn't all right.

It had soaked in on him at last, the spot he was in. Soaked clear through a quart of booze until it hit him where he lived and rubbed the place raw.

He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy.

Did you ever sit back and evaluate your life and think, "Boy, things are going just as I always wanted them to?" I didn't think so.

Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits, which they do not resist; it continues to propel them forward as long as they have a remnant of strength. He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.1 Leopold von Ranke

There could be no snake in Quntana Roo's garden. Only later did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was.

With a jolt of surprise, he realized he had not really wanted anything for twenty years.

nasceu-me o amor sem que eu reparasse nele.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

You have to understand what you're missing before you can really feel a loss.