Realization Quotes

“There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“Finally, realization dawned.
I belonged to Luke. I was Luke’s woman.
Hell, I had probably been born to be Luke’s woman (if you believed that kind of shit).”
― Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick Revenge

“The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.”
― Melody Carstairs

“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It’s amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon.”
― Bryan Davis, Liberator

“I didn’t treat my girl like she was mine
Yeah, I thought I didn’t need her at the time
But I changed my way of thinkin’ when she left
Yeah, I finally learned my lesson, but I learned it by myself”
― Hunter Hayes

“It pained her that a few hundred words in an also-ran newspaper could get her kicked out. That damned article.
And Rook.
Her sharpest agony. She had invested in this guy. Waited for this guy. Felt something for this guy that went beyond the bedroom ... or wherever else they took each other. Nikki did not give herself easily to a man, and this betrayal by Rook was why. Heat reflected on her answer at the oral boards about her greatest flaw and admitted her reply was a mask. Yes, her identification with her job was total. But her greatest flaw wasn’t overinvestment in her career. It was her reticence to be vulnerable. Unarmed as she was-literally-she had been emotionally so with Rook.
That was the gut shot that had blown clean through her soul.”
― Richard Castle

“When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn't it? Seemed just like yesterday I was still only half grown up. Huey Lewis and the News had a couple of hit songs then. Not so many years ago. And now here I was, inside a closed circuit, spinning my wheels. Knowing I wasn't getting anywhere but spinning just the same. I had to. Had to keep that up or I wouldn't be able to survive.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they’re capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life is full of people who find that they’re capable of so much less.”
― Amethyst Marie, A Snag in the Tapestry

“...we're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special

“We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“One thing about a skunk—once you recognize the markings, you know things are gonna stink.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“I wanted it to be so pure. Nothing is ever pure.”
― Emily Whitman

“Trouble is we end up being worse at saying things well. It's got to be an inborn fault. Naturally, everyone's got faults. My biggest fault is that the faults i was born with grow bigger each year.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“I had lots of good intentions but I wasted them on people who didn't deserve them...”
― Bellamkonda Avinash Babu

“I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful and overly imaginative. Surely such monstrosities only existed in nightmares? Yet I had lived through a nightmare these past months, and that was no dream at all.
       I was still fighting against the awful truth, not wanting to give in, searching my mind for a logical explanation—but there was none. And the most horrible realization of all was that I had known, somewhere deep inside, ever since the day I first set eyes on Vladec Salei.
       Plague carrier.
       Living death.
       Drainer of life.
       The phrasing did not matter. No euphemism could strike fear into the hearts of men the way that single word could.
       Vampire.
        And for me, the uninitiated, that single word meant death.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“‎Most of the times,
we feel more enjoyment from just recalling good memories of the past rather from those moments we lived,not because we did not have a good time but because realization has come late.”
― Dionisis Agelakis

“Anyway, I don’t want anyone else, I just want Vaughn.’ It was good to finally say it, as if Grace said it out loud then maybe the universe would get the message and send him back to her.”
― Sarra Manning, Unsticky

“Some people don`t know who they are. Crazy people know exactly who they are.
Normal people who obey every rule will never know who they really are.”
― Layne Kares

“for one precious moment, I believed everything she did was because of love. but now love and power are both shouting their names. I wanted it to be so pure. nothing is ever pure.”
― Emily Whitman, Radiant Darkness

“The absence of God is nothing more than the absence of me.”
― Lionel Suggs

“Do you often wonder,” she continued, desperately hoping her questions would win Vasily over, “what might have been had his gaze fallen upon some other miserable wretch? Yes, you would have been destitute, starving in the streets, scraping for your next meal…but even beggars are free.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

“The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The face of God is nothing but the face within the mirror...”
― Lionel Suggs

“Some realizations can only come from truly looking into the mirror. However, the only thing that the mirror can show one of a false face is the moment before death. Who truly looks into the mirror and sees the painting within it? Who looks into the reflection beyond the looking-glass and see the truth hidden within it? All it takes is one look into the mirror, to come to a realization of truth. But those that do not see the truth, simply falls into another illusion - within an endless refrain.”
― Lionel Suggs

“Sergei doesn’t yearn for love…he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

“In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation.”
― TOOTS888