Top 45 Realisation Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Realisation Quotes from famous people such as Carol Thatcher, James Meade, Gene Clark, Basil Hume, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I remember the moment it first hit me that my mother's

I remember the moment it first hit me that my mother’s memory was no longer the extraordinary phenomenon it had been all my life. The realisation came as a thunderbolt.
Carol Thatcher
I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.
James Meade
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it’s not just a religion, it’s a realisation.
Gene Clark
Our response, our attitude, depends on our realisation of God’s attitude toward us. If I experience love or have experienced it, this is the means whereby I can explore the mystery of God’s love.
Basil Hume
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can’t contrive a song.
Gene Clark
1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
As we were developing ‘Umbral’, and I was delving into the mythology and legends, I had a sudden realisation. ‘Wasteland’ is about people who fervently believe new myths and legends, but they turn out to be false; whereas ‘Umbral’ is about people who reject ancient myths and legends, but they turn out to be true!
Antony Johnston
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues – compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious – are far from conventionally heroic.
John Burnside
I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
Caitlin Moran
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government – the realisation of the will of the people.
John Drinkwater
Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.
Clint Eastwood
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA’s budget is too small for the job.
Paul Davies
I suppose I came to a realisation that being a serious actress and being on the cover of ‘FHM’ don’t need to be mutually exclusive.
Keeley Hazell
As I get older, there’s this new realisation and it’s almost like a relief, and that is that I can never be who I once was, but only who I want to become.
Devendra Banhart
I came to the realisation, rather late in the day, that whatever your body’s meant to be, it will figure itself out.
Lucy Davis
My real guru are my experiences in life – the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
Kailash Kher
Good generalship is the realisation that you’ve got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
Natalia Vodianova
Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.
Konstantinos Karamanlis
Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.
Shari Arison
I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things.
Howard Jacobson
You get a realisation at some point in your career that whatever it is you do, you can no longer continue to do it. You just realise you can’t put out the same records forever.
Brian Fallon
Most times, Mother Earth’s resources are used up without the realisation that these thoughtless actions might just be the root cause for the hardships future generations may face. It is everyone’s responsibility to hand over a green, clean, and healthy environment to them.
Tulsi Tanti
When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
Jordan Peterson
I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life – even if it’s on their death beds – when they suddenly think, ‘Jesus – what did I do?’
Cameron Winklevoss
The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
Steven Price
Excitement was there because I had the realisation of having matches that weren’t always TV matches, that weren’t always strict on timelines or storylines and more so focused on the wrestling, different opponents I hadn’t worked before and a lot of one-on-one matches.
Tenille Dashwood
My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.
Iskra Lawrence
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
Otto Weininger
Ideas must be put to the test. That’s why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I’ve had what I thought were great ideas that just didn’t work.
Andy Goldsworthy
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind… but as a path for realisation and salvation.
Ali Akbar Khan
People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.
Roger Penrose
There’s a scary moment when you realise you’re no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you’ve been a successful young person. That’s followed, of course, by the realisation that you’re actually the oldest person in the room.
Helen Mirren
I think it’s linked to the realisation that we’re not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
John McGahern
My space expedition has changed my perspective towards people. Looking down at the Earth, we could not see borders or people with different nationalities. It was then that realisation dawned on us that all of us are a group of human beings and citizens of the universe.
Sunita Williams
Travelling alone gave me time and space, free of the pressures of trying to verbalise experiences, so I could simply feel the joy of my own existence. This was an extremely powerful realisation: I didn’t just find strength and solace in being alone, but I learned to love it.
Vick Hope
The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.
Kim Young-sam
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
Vladimir Putin
For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It’s like an Andy Warhol dream or something. He’s able to marshal all of these different artforms and media into his story, in this very layered, idiosyncratic way.
David Longstreth
I had a dream to play in the Champions League, so every time I play for Real Madrid, and in the Champions League, I try to enjoy it as much as possible because it’s the realisation of a dream.
Casemiro
I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered… who you knew mattered.
Jo Cox
The Snowden story, which won the Guardiana Pulitzer Prize, became the realisation of Rusbridger’s dream of a brand-building, left-wing-uniting, global and viral story.
Michael Wolff
I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.
Simon McBurney
One should approach life with a realisation that nothing is permanent.
Jaideep Ahlawat