I Realized Quotes - Page 23

• Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Lightning, Today, Intimate

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• I realized that I'd rather die with you than live with someone else.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dies

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Blood Bound”, p.231, Harlequin

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• The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

  Donald Miller

  Monday, Couple, Mean

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kissing, Punctuation, Ends

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.252, St. Martin's Press

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• Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Voice, Black, Majesty

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Writing, Psychology

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• You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.

  Richard Curtis

  Crush, Mistake, Forever

  "Fictional character: The Count". "The Boat That Rocked", www.imdb.com. April 1, 2009.

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• I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

  Michael Moore

  People, Secret, Democracy

  Michael Moore (2011). “Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life”, p.271, Penguin UK

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• I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don’t own this world. I’ve had enough. It’s not supposed to be my fault. Only now.. Only now that I realized.. I hate this world now, living in this world where ‘promise’, ‘bond’ and ‘eternity’ don’t exist, and living in a world full fo strangers is a very, very scary thing. Scared that there’s no guarantee that I’ll be loved. You can’t be living with people surrounding you forever. You just cant. The world is too scary. - Akito

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hate, Guarantees That, People

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• I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional idea is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.

  Helen Fielding

  Believe, Weight Loss, Years

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.155, Pan Macmillan

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• And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Falling In Love, Jesus

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• Religion?" I asked more firmly. Patch dragged a hand thoughtfully along the line of his jaw. "Not religion ... cult." "You belong to a cult?" I realized too late that while I sounded surprised, I shouldn't have. "As it turns out, I'm in need of a healthy female sacrifice. I'd planned on luring her into trusting me first, but if you're ready now...

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Sacrifice, Hands, Healthy

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't matter much when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.

  John Green

  Looks, Lame, Alive

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.196, Penguin

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• I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Sadness, Eye

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.202, Penguin UK

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• It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass." I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Stupid, Dark, Class

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.111, Penguin

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• And that's when I realized that there's really two ways people cry. You cry when you're sorry for yourself, and then you cry when you are really sad. The tears you cry for yourself? Those are kid tears. You're crying because you want somebody to help you or pick you up. Your mom, your dad, the old lady next door... anyone.

  Fuyumi Ono

  Mom, Sorry, Dad

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• Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.

  Rene Descartes

  Numbers, Years, Childhood

  Meditationes "Meditation I" (1641)

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• She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells and all the baggage they brought with them. But now, looking at Deb, I realized what else I'd given up: knowing for sure that someone was going to miss me. What happened to goodbye, Michael in Westcott had written on my Ume.com page. I was pretty sure I knew, now. It had been packed away in a box of its own, trying to be forgotten, until I really needed it. Until now.

  Sarah Dessen

  Goodbye, Farewell, Emotional

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.210, Penguin

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• Humans have always preferred to live their lives​ by daylight. I used to think it was because human beings have crappy night vision, and it wasn't until I got older and more cynical that I realized it was because they have less to be afraid of during the day.

  Mira Grant

  Night, Thinking, Cynical

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• I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if I could see these people and take note of everything I saw, I could write a good song.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, People

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• I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans

  Taylor Swift

  Long, Perfect, Fans

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• In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead. "Do I look dead to you?

  Darynda Jones

  Brain, Looks, Moments

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.19, Macmillan

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• There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Arches, May, Gaelic

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1470, Delacorte Press

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• Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Bird, Heaven

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• …I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

  Roberto Bolano

  Saws, Should, Feels

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