Quotes About Epiphany

#1. What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

Paul Feig

#2. And then it all came rushing back; that's when I realized I'll never stop having a thing for you.

Ahmed Mostafa

#3. Not quite understanding how, he knew what he needed to do. He didn't get it. The feeling - the epiphany - was a strange one, foreign and familiar at the same time. But it felt ... right.

James Dashner

#4. I hope I reach the point where epiphanies become so commonplace that I scarcely bother to register them: Oh look, another epiphany - as we acquire knowledge we become mired in the ignorance of the educated, delivered from the wisdom of innocence by a corrupted midwife. Now what's on telly?

Anonymous

#5. A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.

Lisa Wingate

#6. I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

John Green

#7. Truth is always a turning point.

Sheila Walsh

#8. I realised that in my epiphany of Win El Over, I had grown a fucking vagina.

Becca Lee

#9. Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

Phil Cousineau

#10. The epiphany I had in my career in randomness came when I understood that I was not intelligent enough, nor strong enough, to even try to fight my emotions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. Shh," I interrupted him. "Hold on a second. I think I'm having an epiphany here.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

Mary Meeker

#13. The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

Rebecca Solnit

#14. I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

Elizabeth Debicki

#15. And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

Story Musgrave

#16. I vividly remember going to Google Docs, opening a document at the same time other students were working on it, and seeing their differently colored cursors moving around the screen, typing new words and making edits in real time. It was an epiphany.

Ian Lamont

#17. Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

#18. I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

Erica Jong

#19. Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

Gene Wilder

#20. Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#21. Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing...

Ahmed Mostafa

#22. That was my Malawian epiphany. Only Africans were capable of making a difference in Africa. All the others, donors and volunteers and bankers, however idealistic, were simply agents of subversion.

Paul Theroux

#23. There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!

J.K. Rowling

#24. I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.

Alice Lowe

#25. It's funny how some things are just words until one day, it happens to you, and it's like an epiphany.

Cheryl McIntyre

#26. Discovering your calling is not an epiphany but a series of intentional decisions. It looks less like a giant leap and more like building a bridge.

Jeff Goins

#27. an epiphany: every lesson I learned fell into better management of one of three categories: my time, my attention, and my energy.

Chris Bailey

#28. And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

Ned Vizzini

#29. In the moment, an epiphany feels like hell.

Anonymous

#30. Coincidence is just the hand of God who pushes you on the right track. That path will lead your steps towards an epiphany that will change your life. Don't believe in coincidences, believe in the righteousness of everything that happens to you.

Irina Serban

#31. For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

William H Gass

#32. Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair.

E.L. Konigsburg

#33. Small things start us in new ways of thinking

V.S. Naipaul

#34. I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.

Inio Asano

#35. And like an epiphany just landed on my shoulder, everything feels right. A calming acceptance settles over me, and I know, that even through the twists and uncertainty of time, it's okay if my heart sometimes leads me.

P.K. Hrezo

#36. Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany. But I knew I was lucky before that, so it's not like I suddenly realised how lucky I am.

Clare Balding

#37. Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost and the human being
whoever he or she may be
is no longer revered as an inviolable mystery.

Karen Armstrong

#38. If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug.

Barry Diller

#39. My first epiphany that this might work came on my first day, when I went into biofeedback. They hooked me up to computers through electrodes, put me in a comfortable lounge chair, put an eye pillow over my face, slipped speakers onto my head and played an audio guided visualization.

Brad Willis

#40. I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.

Matt Fraction

#41. I also decided I want to have a meaningful relationship. But only with one person. And then stay with that person for a long time. Like, uh, monography."
Stephen types a few keys in a quick rhythm. "It's shame your epiphany wasn't accompanied by a thesaurus.

Valerie Z. Lewis

#42. For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.

Damon Suede

#43. And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.

D.B.C. Pierre

#44. William Stoner felt a kinship that he had not suspected; he knew that Lomax had gone through a kind of conversion, an epiphany of knowing something through words that could not be put in words,

John Edward Williams

#45. At that moment, in spite of the dizziness, I felt like Nietzsche when he had his Eternal Return epiphany. An inexorable succession of nanoseconds, each one blessed by eternity.

Roberto Bolano

#46. I had an epiphany where I realised that there are song titles everywhere - in advertising, in conversations with people at the grocery store - and every time I open my mind to that and find titles, I then weave a story around that.

Bonnie McKee

#47. I had a conversation with somebody. It was an epiphany." His voice was rueful. He rocked her. "From that point on I swore I would never eat something that could talk.

Thea Harrison

#48. Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.

Laurie Perez

#49. It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as anyone else, maybe more so. I suspect we spend far more time thinking about our thoughts than do sane people.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#50. Most of the words we use in history and everyday speech are like mental depth charges. As they descend [through our consciousness] and detonate, their resonant power is unleashed, showering our understanding with fragments of accumulated meaning and association.

James Axtell

#51. I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder.

Jennifer Salaiz

#52. What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

John Boyne

#53. Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She wanted Po. And she could never be anyone's but her own.

Kristin Cashore

#54. Every moment an epiphany arrives, and cleaves the mountain asunder.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#55. He patted my shoulder. "What's up with you? All of a sudden, you're bucking the system."
"i got drunk and had an epiphany."
"Shit, this is serious!" He gasped. "Last time that happened to me, i woke up gay.

J.C. Isabella

#56. What I did not realize was that I also hoped to have an epiphany, to discover a cause to devote my life to, a location where I thrived, a man to love, a life that would give me more fulfillment than the meager amount I had been living on for years.

Kristine K. Stevens

#57. I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

Donna Tartt

#58. I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

Diane Paulus

#59. Any great art work ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

#60. So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Margaret George

#61. I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

Tayeb Salih

#62. Well, Rhoda was, I think, the last actress that we saw. There had been so many wonderful actresses who were close, really close. But there was no magical epiphany.

Mary Tyler Moore

#63. Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction.

Edward St. Aubyn

#64. The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.

Sol Luckman

#65. Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

Chuck Close

#66. Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.

David Harsanyi

#67. Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious.

Debasish Mridha

#68. The music is happy; the laughter is happy. Everything feels ecstatic and desperate. Blurrily, I think of sex, and I think of death. I realize: Every moment of joyous celebration contains the seed of death.

Laura Rose Wagner

#69. The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.

Pamela Stephenson

#70. The epiphany was simply tucked away for consideration after we were back on campus. Sometimes a revelation comes with a flash of heavenly light and a booming voice - and sometimes it is jotted in a sun-bleached spiral notebook.

Jeffrey A. Lockwood

#71. Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold
And like the sky my soul is also turnin'
Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind

Ray Lamontagne

#72. A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.

Ronnie Dunn

#73. This is an epiphany moment, I can either sink or swim

Jamie Scallion

#74. I'll say, a strange man is a marvel, with his mighty talk; but what's a squabble in your back yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed.

J.M. Synge

#75. Audiences may experience an epiphany at a play, whether that play is consciously "Christian" or not; God is not limited by our conscious preparation (as artists or audiences). God's Spirit enters our lives in the most surprising of places-even in the theatre.

Todd E. Johnson

#76. But this wasn't a movie. In life, we didn't get to have credits roll to tell us when we'd come to the end of our epiphany arc. To know when to applaud. In life, there were no credits, no sound tracks. In life, things often didn't work out.

Kim Culbertson

#77. I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

Nick Hornby

#78. If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

John F. Kennedy

#79. She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. Are you an illegal alien?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#80. Sometimes you go so far in your life,
you can't get back
though you know it's not really your life.

Michael Hogan

#81. I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror.

Glen Duncan

#82. My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode.

John Darnielle

#83. Whose little boy are you?

James Baldwin

#84. I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

Lauren Bowles

#85. Don-Keun was a new man. The moment they arrived, he vanished for a second. We heard muffled ecstatic screaming coming from somewhere in the back of the Waffle House kitchen, then he reappeared, his face shining with the kind of radiance usually associated with religious epiphany.

Maureen Johnson

#86. But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#87. Instead of swinging back and forth between individual points of truth, each piece we learn should build upon another to bring us closer to the full truth.

Amy Layne Litzelman

#88. much-anticipated, long-awaited epiphany is actually a brief, quiet, simple shift in perspective from the one who is looking for That, to the recognition that it is That which is looking.

Robert Wolfe

#89. Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Tom Robbins

#90. Before I was ordained, when I was working for the council, I thought of the first three months of the year as January, February, March. Now I think of them as Epiphany, Candlemas and Ash Wednesday.

Adam Smallbone

#91. There's a deli around the corner from my office where I'd get a bag of chips with my sandwich, and I was hiding them under my sandwich because I was embarrassed. When I had this epiphany that I was hiding the potato chips from myself, I realized there was an opportunity there.

Keith Belling

#92. I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.

Deborah Norville

#93. The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before ... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.

Clive Davis

#94. Sometimes we get stuck in patterns or reoccurring themes in our lives that require a shocking epiphany to give us the opportunity to see new possibilities and notice the obstacles that keep us from moving on.

Kat Lahr

#95. Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

Zack Love

#96. In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.

Peter David

#97. Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

Bisco Hatori

#98. It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

Jan Peacock

#99. There used to be places called prisons before the Epiphany, where the demerited were restrained against their will."
"It sounds hideously barbaric"
"Prisons are still with us; only the walls are constructed of fear, taboo and the unknown.

Jasper Fforde

#100. An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Nick Cave