Realised Quotes - Page 11

• What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Life, Dream, Age

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• I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

  Jacques Lacan

  Past, Perfect, Becoming

  Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”

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• Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Song, Issues, Chance

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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• I realised, of course, that other people used these roads; but that night, it seemed to me these dark byways of the country existed just for the likes of us, while the big glittering motorways with their huge signs and super cafes were for everyone else.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Country, Dark, Night

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• There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.

  Alison Goodman

  Men, Hands, Years

  Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.46, Penguin

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• When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.

  Johnny Vegas

  Confidence, Children, Hands

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• I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

  Barbara Pym

  Encouragement, Unrequited Love, Might

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.73, Penguin

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• And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised.

  Lauren Kate

  Ego, Fruit, Bruised

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• What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.

  Erlend Loe

  Men, Together, Months

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• His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some tiny way, come to matter to this enigmatic, hard, brilliant, obsessed man? I realised he'd come to matter to me. Good or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Grieving, Breathing

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever”, Random House LLC

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• The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

  Charles Lamb

  Night, Other Worlds, Smoking

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 26 December 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 207

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• Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

  Wim Wenders

  Criticism, One Day, Entertainment

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  Maj Sjowall

  Summer, Mother, Children

  "The queen of crime" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

  Andy Summers

  College, Guitar, Periods

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• Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Matter, Becoming, Conscious

  "Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.

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• Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.

  Emun Elliott

  Love, Drama, School

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• I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

  Mario Testino

  Children, Kindness, Humility

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• I don’t distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Twelve

  Interview with Matthew De Abaitua, www.harrybravado.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States...

  Danica Patrick

  Dream, England, Compromise

  "Daytona 500: Racing superstar Danica Patrick commits career to America’s NASCAR". Interview with Rachel Ray, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 26, 2012.

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• Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Children, Mistake, Youth

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• Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realised that he has already judged that people judge others.

  Anuj

  People, Judging, Natural

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• At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Night

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• Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Light, Achievement, Society

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• I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Creative, Lazy, Idlers

  "How To Be Idle". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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