Epiphany Quotes
120 quotes by 107 authors
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of…
— Justine Musk
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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…
— Chuck Close
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What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's…
— Paul Feig
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Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
— Jim Harrison
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Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
— Brad Pitt
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I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had…
— Steve Vai
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There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught…
— Octavio Paz
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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…
— Khaled Hosseini
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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…
— Azar Nafisi
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The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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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…
— Nick Hornby
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The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
— Rebecca Solnit
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I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand…
— Nelson Mandela
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I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.
— Inio Asano
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Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.
— Donald Miller
Who Wrote These Epiphany Quotes
107 authors contributed a total of 120 Epiphany Quotes, led by these top contributors: