Quotes About Realization

you almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die.

Iranian or Pakistani writers who saw the violence in the West realised that if clerics issued fatwas against them in Tehran or Lahore, they could no longer expect to flee to a safe haven.

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But I'm not saying anything because I've just noticed the brick. Or rather the lack of brick. Of course, some of the dark shapes on the floor probably are bricks, but they don't look like my brick. The one that can be up against the door. But isn't.

Sometimes I feel like my whole life has been a long, long wait for something horrible that never actually happened. Like I've been in water, up to my neck, fighting to stay afloat, year after year. But if only I'd felt for the bottom I'd have found it. It was there. The ocean bed, just below where I was treading. It was there.

Hild realised her mother had deflected her somehow, as she always did.

The child's world changed late one afternoon, though she didn't know it.

The realization of what she had done, the exhilaration of her own strength rushed into her, like champagne rushing to fill lead crystal. She shimmered with it, she fizzed. I wanted to lift her in both hands, drink her down, drain her, feel the foam inside me, circling around heart, lungs, stomach.

She looked at her big hand, red now. Men's blood. She had killed a man; more than one man. The world looked no different, but she felt different in it, as though it had tilted on its axis and the line of stars had changed.

It was only now that she understood, for the first time, that despite her title, her uniform, and the two stars on her shoulder, she was as helpless as any native herder or farmer or sailor.

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.

The imbecile does not discover the radical misery of our condition except when he is sick, poor, or old.

Genuine thought only discovers its principles at the end.

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.

despair evaporates when we stop denying who we really are and attempt to uncover and accept our true nature.

When You've lost it all....thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.

When You've lost it all....that's when you realize that Life is Beautiful.

Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has remained hidden from the eyes of others;

Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

In the stillness of the mind, I saw myself as I am: unbound.

Each pleasure is wrapped in pain. You soon discover that you cannot have one without the other … Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances … Real happiness flows from within.

In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.