Slow Realization Quotes

What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

It wasn't like I loved football from 12 on. It took time.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

The beauty of a relationship is when you get used to a person; it is not sudden. It is just a process, and you don't realise when love happens.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

It takes a long time for words to become thought.

'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.

Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

Is it 'a drag' that passions don't come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them? Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.