Quotes About Realization

Cuando te acaricié me dí cuenta que había vivido toda mi vida con las manos vacías.

When you find love, real love, it's like a catastrophe, like a tsunami. Like an earthquake, because all your individuality, all what you believed you are, it's breaking. And you are completely another person. You never know what you were. And it's a catastrophe –– but a good catastrophe, not a bad catastrophe.

I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

it is not enough that we know how things really stand; in a certain sense, things themselves have to realize how they stand.

Il soggiorno veronese è davvero il primo momento in cui Dante dovette rendersi conto di ...come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.

I just knew. There was no movie ending. There was only an ending.

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

The range of what we see and do Is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice That we fail to notice, There is little we can do To change Until we notice How failing to notice Shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing With

I loved him, in part, for what he might be someday, which is never a good way to love someone. It was in fact a way of rejecting him, a way of rejecting who he is now, and I think in some way we both knew this.

I cleared my throat and found my voice then, like a coin suddenly in your pocket that'd been missing when last you looked for it. Ernesto's

If a man realises God's hold on him, he feels all others relaxed.

consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late

I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren't laughing anymore.

We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late.

she'd realized—too late—that the habit of loving him had long since replaced love itself.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

I'm nearly thirty, and up to now I've lived as the grass grows. What terrible emptiness! Nothing but selfishness and indifference to others. I must pull myself up before it is too late. Ivan Ilich Telegin.

This was why. So that she would become conscious.

Quelquefois, il y a des sympathies si réelles que, se rencontrant pour la première fois, on semble se retrouver.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.

When I entered the industry, I wanted to work with good directors like Mani Ratnam and Gautam Menon; that's why I did Tamil films. I realised later that I was not adding anything to the Tamil scripts and that it was a waste of time for me.