Moment Of Realisation Quotes

#1. My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.

Russell T. Davies

#2. When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#3. To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

Alan Cohen

#4. The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead.

J.K. Rowling

#5. In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

Rufus Wainwright

#6. We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

Helen Mirren

#8. I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

Michael Jordan

#9. But the guilt didn't have much of a chance against the dawning realisation that I was falling in love. I had stared out the window at the early-morning fog, wondering for a moment if she had sent Joe to me so I would know that in the same world where she could die, this could happen.

Jandy Nelson

#10. Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

Steven Pinker

#11. Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real

Thomas Merton

#12. Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.

Lolah Runda

#13. Veins of ivy scale stones,
find footholds but
the caretaker cuts
earth short, peels
creepers from Cotswold
rock and props the dead
head to head so they won't
topple like drunks
on their moss-soft shadows.

Jalina Mhyana

#14. In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

Stephen Hawking

#15. Everything was for this moment- of silence, of bliss! I am speechless at this shrine of You and I understand that life was just a journey to find You, the deepest consciousness living in even the dead!

Preeth Nambiar

#16. I realized that no, no one would actually come to save or even stop me, I had absolutely no choice. The scale tipped: the moment not doing it became more difficult and unbearable than just doing it.

Aspen Matis

#17. ...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

Ruth Dugdall

#18. In the moment of quietness, my strength re-energized

Lailah Gifty Akita