Epiphany Quotes
120 Epiphany quotes by 107 unique authors
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Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual…
— Sam Keen
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I had an epiphany: I was a loser.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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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.
— Joan Wickersham
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white…
— Ted Allen
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The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the…
— Dennis Lehane
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I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.
— Chrisette Michele
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I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours -…
— Erin Morgenstern
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I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's…
— Lucy Lawless
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I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander'…
— Billy Campbell
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Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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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
Who Wrote These Epiphany Quotes
107 authors contributed a total of 120 Epiphany Quotes, led by these top contributors: