Top 140 Epiphany Quotes & Sayings

The 'that's right' breakthrough usually doesn't come at the beginning of a negotiation. It's invisible to the counterpart when it occurs, and they embrace what you've said. To them, it's a subtle epiphany.

The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

I usually don't talk for three days after a defeat. Then you have an epiphany and realise it's just a game.

I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

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

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

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.

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.

I just had a epiphany, I need to go to Tiffany's

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

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.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.

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.

To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.

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

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.

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

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

It's true, I do love the semi-epiphany. For example, in "Fall Line," the character's final decision is less epiphany than imbecility. He makes a choice, which the conflict hangs upon - whether to seek fame or actually change his life - and so, his decision is tied to the central conflict and his own hubris.

In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.

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

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.

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

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

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.

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

Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game.

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.

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.

I ended up having an epiphany that no body of work I put out will ever mean as much to me as '3:33 AM.'

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.

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.

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

If you are ever on stage, and it feels as though the audience is not laughing at the right points or are not quite as engaged as you'd hope, you have to remember there is always somebody who might be falling in love with this world and having an epiphany. I was that person.

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.

Change is an action not just an epiphany!

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

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

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

I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

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...!!!

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.

The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.

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.

I think a lot of people have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them. They're always looking for some great epiphany from the skies. They never stop to consider the fact which human beings find hardest to recognize: "Maybe I'm not worthy of an epiphany.

I was 12 when I was on stage for the first time and had an epiphany that this is what I wanted to do.

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.

I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.