119 Quotes About Epiphany

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

It is the fire that consumes me;It is an inexplicable love,It is the rain that calms me;It is a melody from above.It is the wind that humbles me;It is everywhere and nowhere,It is the sand that fuels me;It is the artistry of nature.I’m consumed by what I am,I’m calmed by a riotous noise,I’m humbled through arrogance,I’m fueled by what is in poise.I’ve much cherished the mystifying,I’ve heard the unreal symphonies,I’ve been moved by the inevitable,And I’ve hailed the epiphanies.

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

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Those times in life when a mask falls away and everything makes sense, even if just for a moment, you pay attention. Sometimes they involve an actual blindfold.

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

Je suis partout où je suis.

He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.