Top 100 When You Realise Quotes
#1. Oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be defeated
Again.
Nikki Rowe
#2. When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.
Shane Filan
#3. One thing that is guaranteed not to work. Doing Nothing. A goldmine when you realise it. Don't be paralysed by analysis. Don't be paralysed by fear. The one thing that is guaranteed not to work. Doing nothing achieves nothing.
Tony Curl
#4. Infatuation is when you find somebody who is absolutely perfect. Love is when you realise that they aren't and it doesn't matter.
Sweetdreamer33
#5. its bad enough talking to yourself but worse when you realise you aren't listening
Tabitca Cope
#6. When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
Idries Shah
#7. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.
Jeanette Winterson
#8. I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Graeme Simsion
#9. I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.
Kristen Stewart
#10. The glow of delicioous tension coudn't be faked, not at any price. So when you leave, that's when you realise you've been living in a lie.
Lesley Lokko
#11. There comes a day when you realise turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realise there's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Zayn Malik
#12. There is a moment when you realise you are not doing what you want to do or being who you want to be. It is at that moment that you become who you really are.
Chloe Thurlow
#13. When you get a little older, there comes a time when you realise thats whats called happiness consists only of individual lovely moments, those special times that you remember later on.
Nicolas Barreau
#14. I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
John McGahern
#15. You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?
John Lennon
#16. What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.
Jessica Yu
#17. 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
#18. When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.
Jim Fixx
#19. Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#20. There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.
George C. Scott
#21. It's difficult to know which second among a lifetime of seconds is more special. Often when you realise how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realise too late.
Cecelia Ahern
#22. It comes to us all. The moment when you realise that nothing but love will do.
Tania Kindersley
#23. When you realise you are just as ridiculous & just as #special as everyone else, you love them all.
Jay Woodman
#24. There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.
Beatrice Warde
#25. Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.
Guillaume Musso
#26. Whatever is needed for you and your body will be taken care of, when you know this the lack will disappear from your life. When you realise ISHA permeates your everything you relax and are at ease - that is when things happen.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#27. The moment when you realise that you are stupid, you catch your best chance to be clever!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
William Faulkner
#29. When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help families during that terrible time gets my backing.
Stephen Mangan
#30. Hey, do you wanna go out for ... " His words melted with a sigh when he noticed Tod, but then he rallied with a smile. "Hi, Tod, I didn't realise you were here. In my daughter's bedroom. With the door closed."
"Happy to be here," Tod said, and I groaned out loud.
Rachel Vincent
#31. Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
Val Kilmer
#32. Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
Cyndi Lauper
#33. When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
Ryan Tedder
#34. Once you realise you love someone is when it is all over
Michaela Haze
#35. When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.
George Lucas
#36. There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.
Sam Claflin
#37. Do you realise that when you give a schilling to a beggar you are giving it to yourself?Do you realise that when you help a dog over a stile you yourself are being helped?Do you realise when you kick a man when he is down, you are kicking yourslef?Give him another kick, you deserve it!
Wei Wu Wei
#38. When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
Jermain Defoe
#39. When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.
Leslie Mann
#40. It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.
Daniel Barber
#41. It's not until you're older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.
Sara Sheridan
#42. It had all dropped into place, like the last bit of the jigsaw, which you thought all along was a bit of left-hand sky, but when you turn it over you realise it's the last chunk of right-hand sea, or the sky tricksily reflected in the surface of the pond.
Tom Holt
#43. Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.
Arjun Rampal
#44. So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.
Nelly
#45. Only when the last tree has been cut down and the last river has dried up will man realise that reciting red indian proverbs makes you sound like a fucking muppet.
Banksy
#46. Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.
Amy Waldman
#47. When you know the impact of little expenses, you will realise that there is nothing little in this world.
Manoj Arora
#48. Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#49. When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
David Hockney
#50. You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
Dr. Dre
#51. It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Gertrude Stein
#52. I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.
Megan Fox
#53. Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.
Sharon Stone
#54. I could take back those moments that snatched you away from me or maybe just wipe away those ten minutes when you came to me for the first time and I looked into your eyes to realise what love is.
Faraaz Kazi
#55. I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
Abbie Cornish
#56. It hapens very often that parents think they are worred about the progress a boy is making. they do not realise that all boys are numskulls with o branes which is not surprising when you look at the parents really the whole thing goes on and on and there is no stoping it it is a vicious circle.
Geoffrey Willans
#57. Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire ... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it's very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it's quite a miracle.
Nick Nolte
#58. The moment you realise and feel sad that the world does not hear and see you when you are in a small village, your marvellous journey starts towards the universal infinity! If you can be universal, everyone sees you, everyone hears you! Leave your local position!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. Once you realise there's nothing to be afraid of when you die, there's nothing else to worry about.
Michael Thomas Ford
#60. Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is.
Michael Carrick
#61. When you get up in the morning, you select what you want to wear, however you do not realise you can also select what thoughts you are going to have. Your clothe leaves an impression on other people, your thoughts leaves an impression on you, choose wisely - Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen-
Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen
#62. I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man's life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal.
Johnny Depp
#63. The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.
Emily Oster
#64. The beauty of a relationship is when you get used to a person; it is not sudden. It is just a process, and you don't realise when love happens.
Riteish Deshmukh
#65. Her emotional world was simple: If you love with all your might and take care of the other, he or she will do the same in return. How disappointing it is when we realise the world isn't that way.
Sean Ferrer
#66. You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
Caryl Churchill
#67. When you watch the view, the view also watches you because you are also a view! If you can realise this, then you can also realise that there is no view, but only the viewer or there is no viewer, but only the view!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.
Nikki Sanderson
#69. It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.
Rebecca Stott
#70. When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave.
Rohit Shetty
#71. Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.
Johnny Depp
#72. When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.
Helen Dunmore
#73. Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.
Angel Haze
#74. I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#75. The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.
Peter Higgs
#76. When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. I am sorry for when I do it
hopefully one day you'll realise why.
Please do not be angry;
just understand that today I tried.
Isabel Aanya Leigh
#78. In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.
Lee Hall
#79. If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.
William Gibson
#80. Nothing said Clothes to Wear When You Want to Impress a Guy You Initially Shot Down, But Now You Realise You Like Him and Want to Get Him Back. Where was the outfit for that?
Kristin Walker
#81. When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
Barkhad Abdi
#82. When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it.
Jennifer Lopez
#83. When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
Ian Beattie
#84. When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.
John Cleese
#85. When people come up to me and say 'oh, your singing made me cry', it's nice to realise that you're making other people happy, but I don't know how I do it. I just sing.
Faryl Smith
#86. I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.
Delta Goodrem
#87. When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.
Suraj Sharma
#88. The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.
Matt Damon
#89. My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
Maria Sharapova
#90. It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are. - GEORGE ORWELL, The Road to Wigan Pier
Gretchen Rubin
#91. Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.
Amish Tripathi
#92. When I see you here amidst all this, I realise that I proposed to a very small part of you. I thought I was giving you a home and a position, but here I see that I am taking you away from so much.
Daisy Goodwin
#93. ...and the day will come...Maybe not tomorrow maybe not next week but it will come nevertheless, when you awaken and realise, it just a foolishly beautiful dream...
Virginia Alison
#94. Between love and a friendship, the crucial difference is that when the love breaks you will realise that the friendship is what kept the two of you together.
Isabel Aanya Leigh
#95. Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.
Bob Geldof
#96. When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.
Sebastian Vettel
#97. I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.
Jamie Cullum
#98. Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
Fay Weldon
#99. When you have trained your mind and your nerves to realise this idea of the world's nondependence on you or on anybody, there will then be no reaction in the form of pain resulting from work.
Swami Vivekananda
#100. You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.
Samantha Stosur
