Quotes About Realization

We could not expect him to see what we are only just beginning--and with so much more knowledge and the lessons of existentialist philosophy at our disposal--to realise ourselves: that the desire to hold and the desire to enjoy are mutually destructive. His statement to himself should have been, I possess this now, therefore I am happy, instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this forever, and therefore am sad.

Instead of feeling hopeless, he realized he did know how to support her. He had just gotten sidetracked by thinking his money should make her happy when really his caring and understanding of her had been the source of her contentment.

Las razones por las que estamos aquí forman una cadena tan inverosímil que la posibilidad de que alguna otra civilización tecnológica exista en la Vía Láctea en la actualidad es remotísima. Estamos solos, y lo mejor es que nos hagamos la idea.

The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised.

As soon as he had trawled through the confession, he must have realized how flimsy

she was distraught to realize soon after their marriage that he did not really love her.

The point was - he wasn't acting . It was as if he'd forgotten how! Jack still knew his lines, but he was out of character... Jack had stopped acting. He was just Jack Burns - the real Jack Burns at last.

It was in looking at sea gulls that it first occurred to Homer Wells that he was free.

Jenny decided that all manifestations of her innocence were futile and appeared defensive.

Fino a che una cosa non ci ammala, non la capiamo.

Ignatius, all at once you're your horrible old self. All at once I think I'm making a very big mistake.

Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with good clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

Perhaps it is the realization that I am going to take this toilet's virginity with a fury and savagery that is an abomination to its delicate craftsmanship and quality.

Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it? 'I am the carpenter….

It's here, I think, that science, history, and art have something in common: they all depend on metaphor, on the recognition of patterns, on the realization that something is like something else.

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out—by doing it.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

I thought i had been educated well enough until i left college.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

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

Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?