Top 100 Until You Realize Quotes

#1. The pain never goes away, Freya, but it becomes manageable. One day, you'll wake up and realize you can breathe a little easier than the day before. Until then, all you can do is lean on people closest to you... lean on me. I want you to.

Jessica Prince

#2. Like your sweet, affectionate house cat, Alice Dahl is easy to underestimate. It's not until the songbirds in the yard show up eviscerated on the front porch that you realize you should've kept that bell collar on her - because those poor birds never even saw her coming.

Elle Lothlorien

#3. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

Evita Ochel

#4. You'll never truly know what alone is, until you're on the brink of death with no one to rely on. But after finding the strength to save yourself, you realize that the person you'll ever need is yourself.

Gabriel Common

#5. All good ideas are terrible ...
Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

Seth Godin

#6. For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.

Neal Stephenson

#7. It's tempting to think of US politics as sport or entertainment until you realize these clowns are actually making important policy decisions.

Michael Sadoff

#8. In his play "Long Day's Journey into Night, " Eugene O'Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her life: "None of us can help the things life has done to us. They are done before you realize it and once they are done, they make you do other things, until at

Ravi Zacharias

#9. Sometimes you don't realize your fear of heights until you stand at the edge of the cliff, ready to jump.

BlueMystique

#10. You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

Gary Renard

#11. The future is always bright; it isn't until you get there that you realize it isn't.

H.M. Ward

#12. You won't realize just how young you are until you aren't that young anymore.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#13. Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

Caitlin Rose

#14. Focus is scary - until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

Clayton Christensen

#15. I love you," she said softly for the first time. It shocked her to realize she had never spoken the words until now.

Kirsten Beyer

#16. Sometimes life leaves a hundred-dollar bill on your dresser, and you don't realize until later it's because it fucked you.

Justin Halpern

#17. 'Oh, gods,' said Holden, halfway into his tunic. 'I can't believe it's taken me five years to realize your one tragic flaw. You're a morning person. Stop being so chipper right now. At least until I've had my coffee.'

Maculategiraffe

#18. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

Cassandra Clare

#19. Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give-and then realize that it still isn't what they need?

Jodi Picoult

#20. You won't understand where home is until you realize it is the only place your mind takes you back to when every journey ends badly.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

Robert Breault

#22. Girls interested in modeling need to realize that its hard work. You can go to a shoot in the morning and not even start shooting until 10pm - and still be there at 5am the next day. Then if you still haven't got the shot, you'll have to go back the next day and start again!

Kate Moss

#23. I feel so alone," she said. "You don't realize how much space someone takes up until they're gone and there's too much emptiness. This place never echoed before. Now it does." She was mystified.

Faith Sullivan

#24. It was like seeing the slides at the optometrist, when you didn't even realize how blurry something was until you got to see the clearer version, and you could see what had been obscured before.

Morgan Matson

#25. You don't realize how much a dog's presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.

Meghan Daum

#26. The actors in Britain are incredible, and I didn't appreciate that until I got there. They interpret your words and you realize how deliberate and thoughtful they are. There are great American actors, too, don't get me wrong, but the technique that British actors have is something really special.

Frank Spotnitz

#27. You don't realize how many bridges there are until the sight of one collapses something inside of you.

Cora Carmack

#28. Sometimes, you don't even realize anything is wrong until someone comes along and changes you

Mia Sheridan

#29. You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

Julie Benz

#30. There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#31. Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

Susan Gale

#32. I didn't realize it at the time. I really didn't even think about it, until you. I couldn't figure out why you were so different to me.I know now that it's not right ... But it was something. It made me feel less ... lonely.

S.C. Stephens

#33. No one sets out to be the bad guy, you set out to change the world and heal the wounds of society. Until the day you realize just out deep those wounds go and that the only way to save the world is to put it down like a rapid dog.

Samuel Grace

#34. Are you worthy of realizing your dream? If you said yes, there is no short cut. You're going to encounter setback after setback until you realize your dream.

Assegid Habtewold

#35. It felt like I'd taken everything for granted up until right now, when suddenly my entire world and all in it became precious and fleeting. I should have paid more attention, soaked it in more. Which you always realize once it's getting too late to do just that.

Sarah Dessen

#36. It's not until you become seriously ill and you nearly die and you're at home for 6 months, that you suddenly stop to realize that this isn't the way I intended it to be in the beginning. Everything that you've done falls away and start wondering why you went through all that rock business stuff.

Chris Rea

#37. Sometimes you don't realize how special a place - or a person - really is until until they're slipping away from you.

Natalie Lloyd

#38. Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

Helen Gurley Brown

#39. You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.

Jeff Bridges

#40. I fell into such an easy love with you, I didn't even realize it was happening until one day, it was everything.

Kristen Proby

#41. Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem ... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution.

John Spence

#42. You have to be careful," Pwnage said, "with people who are puzzles and people who are traps. A puzzle can be solved but a trap cannot. Usually what happens is you think someone's a puzzle until you realize they're a trap. But by then it's too late. That's the trap.

Nathan Hill

#43. Until you realize who you are, you will not be able to start living the life you are intended to live

Sunday Adelaja

#44. Sometimes you don't realize how far you've gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.

Nicki Minaj

#45. You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.
Now fear is here to stay,
love is here for a visit.

Elvis Costello

#46. When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.

Marc Maron

#47. Until you write books, you don't realize that the book does decide certain things. It must sound like complete insanity to non-writers. And maybe it is.

Christopher Bollen

#48. I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

Alan Arkin

#49. Your religious book(s) mentioned the power of mind thousands of years ago so WHY do you have to wait until the science proves it in the 21st century? Let others wait to realize/prove the facts not you.

Maddy Malhotra

#50. Coming face to face with mortality changes you. But it makes you wonder, why do we wait until something tragic happens before we finally try to realize our dreams. We always assume there will be time. Unfortunately, time can be cruel.

Carolyn Bennett

#51. You can't come to a new point of view until you realize what your brainwashing has been.

Morton T. Kelsey

#52. You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.

Mother Teresa

#53. You welcome your children into the world knowing that if all goes the way you plan, you won't get to see the end of their story. It seems a sad notion until you realize that's what gives you hope for the future.

David Mack

#54. It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

Scott Stapp

#55. That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

Ice-T

#56. Always listen to the parent who doesn't like who you love. They can smell a mistake. Of course, you don't find this out until you realize that the person you fell in love with is different from the person you married. Some men are good at fooling you.

Terry McMillan

#57. Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn."

"That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

#58. I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

Steven Adler

#59. your eclipsed heart will wail for my stars until you realize you need my cosmic grace. chaos

K.Y. Robinson

#60. Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It's the miseries that stick in you like thorns - until you realize that it's all your doing.

Sadghuru

#61. You don't really understand the ocean until you are in the midst of it, nothing but ocean on all sides, stretching away endlessly. Only then do you realize how small you are, how powerless.

Patrick Rothfuss

#62. [Rakel] It feels a bit like jumping out of a burning house. Falling is better than burning.
[Harry] At least until you land.
[Rakel] I've come to realize that falling and living have certain things in common. For a start, both are very temporary states of being.

Jo Nesbo

#63. I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.

Paul Anka

#64. Not until you finally try to put down the stuff do you realize, with stinging clarity, precisely why you picked it up in the first place. All life, in this freshly nerve-flayed state, boils down to a choice of hells. The hell of being fucked-up on drugs or the hell of being fucked-up without them.

Jerry Stahl

#65. Until you realize what they are. They're just ways to lose the game. You lose the game, and what have you lost? You've lost the game. Corion had told me about the game. How many of my thoughts were his? How much of my philosophy was filth from that old man's fingers?

Mark Lawrence

#66. When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

Tony Hoagland

#67. Every day," I tell him, "you will miss me either a little less or a little more. Until one day you will wake up and realize you don't miss me at all, or you will find yourself incapable of living without me.

Megan Hart

#68. I didn't realize that it's true what they say, that when your heart is truly broken you can feel the moment it cracks. Until just now. I'm

Kristen Proby

#69. I didn't realize it until now, but I don't really know anything about them, or what kind of people they are, really. You can't see inside a person's heart.

Koushun Takami

#70. You don't realize how much you miss human interaction until it is removed from your life. Simple touches go a long way toward providing comfort.

Alessandra Torre

#71. It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed enough, like me, you don't even realize you've lost them, not until they come back to you.

Kevin Brockmeier

#72. Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

Ed Asner

#73. It is not until you awaken and become fully present that you will realize that you have not been present. It is not until you awaken that you will realize you have been asleep, dreaming that you are awake.

Leonard Jacobson

#74. I only know that one day you wake up and realize it doesn't hurt quite so much. Until then you can put yourself in the hands of God- He'll see you through. You can take it from someone who knows, dear. I've found his hands to be an easy place to rest.

Ann Tatlock

#75. The future arrived here a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed. Because that's how the future always arrives. You don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

Warren Ellis

#76. Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

Bruce Sterling

#77. You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.

Roshan Sharma

#78. Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!

Albert Hammond Jr.

#79. So I wonder if true love is more subtle. If it sneaks up or stands there next to you, and you don't recognize that it's true love until you turn and look at tis thing that's been right there with you all along, and you realize that you never want to be without it.

Kristin Walker

#80. When you're in the center of something, on a ride, I don't think you realize what it is until it's over.

Ryan Seacrest

#81. Trust is both an attitude and an action. Your first small step must be followed by another, and another, until you realize that God has indeed made a way for you to know him personally. The more you act on your faith in God, the more you will see of his way for you.

Henry Cloud

#82. I think that you have to prepare yourself mentally for show business, because it is such a tough world. You don't realize how hard it is until you're actually in it and you're actually on the show.

Carmen Rasmusen

#83. Sometimes, you don't realize what you have until you wake up and go 'Damn.'

August Alsina

#84. You never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses.

Karel Capek

#85. You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

Don Meyer

#86. You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.

Timothy Keller

#87. Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put in your way. People who realize free will is a gift, you'll never know how to use until you fight for it.

The Adjustment Bureau

#88. More than likely you'll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there may be a diamond or two in what you thought was your old man's bucket.

Carew Papritz

#89. But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#90. As a child of God, you must realize that you are on the winning side of prophecy; until you win it is not over!

Chris Oyakhilome

#91. You know what the bounty is on bin Laden? $25 million. It sounds like a lot until you realize the Texas Rangers paid $250 million to get Alex Rodriguez.

Jay Leno

#92. When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

Anson Mount

#93. Unfortunately, it's not until you've had children that you discover how selfish you actually are. That's one of the paradoxical aspects of becoming a parent: at the very same time you realize precisely how selfish you are, you are forced to become less selfish.

Mark Cleary

#94. You don't realize you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

James Baldwin

#95. And now, I understand intimately how you don't realize what you have until you lose it. Maybe holding something precious at a distance is the only way to measure its value. The

Jodi Picoult

#96. If you close your eyes you see darkness, but if you keep them closed for long enough, you'll see light." -I've once said a similar quote like this to my friend only to realize it's from Skins. It is still my favourite quote until now.

Skins

#97. Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long ... which sounds like too much, until you realize there's been over thirty hours of TV dedicated to Honey Boo Boo.

Jimmy Fallon

#98. Humility is the first step towards learning. You can't learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.

Robert Kiyosaki

#99. Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#100. When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

T.D. Jakes

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