Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn’t know how to read the signs.
The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he's doing all right and then you realise that there's one massive lesson to learn.
In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.
[About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time.
People are much more interesting than people realise.
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.