Quotes About Realization

First and foremost, the departure often occurs at a moment when our indifference—real or imagined—is at its greatest,

You know," I said to her as we got back into the carriage, "the life of a resort and the life of travel make me realize that the theater of the world has fewer sets at its disposal than actors, and fewer actors than 'situations.

I have woken up to find that I am made of words.

I'd seen all the ingredients; I'd just refused to see what they made. So

La vida consiste en descubrir su propia naturaleza.

It had been a surprise—and yeah, okay, a pleasure—to realize how very good he was at being bad.

To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it. Brody poured drinks in crystal tumblers.

It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken.

The first thought was this: that he was a foolish old man, because all his life he'd been looking for something and it was only when Anna joined him in the bar that evening that he realized that home is not something you find outside yourself; home is something you carry inside you, and it's made from the memories of the people you love, and the people who have loved you.

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

I had know it and never known it.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Very early in my life it was too late.

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

It's funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it backwards. But I don't think so. I think the tragedy about life is there is no tragedy - you just don't know it till you die." — Patty Belle Bellani

En el mundo en que vivimos, con sus luces y sus sombras, afirmar que uno se realiza con el don sincero de sí —siguiendo las huellas de Jesús— significa ciertamente ir a contracorriente. Son muchas las voces que se alzan con una propuesta contraria: "Piensa en ti mismo, no te compliques la vida, vive para ti". Pareciera que el darse a los demás nos quitase la libertad de hacer lo que nos da la gana.

I think that was the moment at which I realised I was truly leaving. This is something the gentlemen readers of this memoir may not understand, but the ladies will know it all too well. If they are married, they have been through it already, and if not, I am sure they have devoted some thought to the matter. To marry means to leave one home for another, and often one place for another.

Everything in the material world is first created on the level of thought.

After another long silence, bit by bit, realisation dawned upon Edmund and he became even paler than Hecate herself which was, in itself, a fantastic achievement. Adele Rose, Awakening.

The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.