Quotes About Elude

#1. There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.

B.G. Bowers

#2. The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

George Santayana

#3. Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error ...

Carl Sagan

#4. She attempted to deal with her terror in a most ineffective and magical mode-a mode that I have seen many patients use: she attempted to elude death by refusing to live.

Irvin D. Yalom

#5. When it touches your soul, truth is like fire," he began. "As you know, when we rest too close to the fire we quickly become uncomfortable. Too close and it even becomes painful. But that doesn't always mean we should try to elude its flames.

Serena Chase

#6. The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes form 'no-mind.' It comes form just being. You are already enlightened. You just have to realize it to allow it into your experience.

Anita Moorjani

#7. The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.

Toni Morrison

#8. If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

Anna Quindlen

#9. I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#10. He was one of those people who feel so compelled to fulfill duties that they go plunging into great collapsing edifices constructed entirely of disagreeable duties simply out of the fear that some secret, inconspicuous duty might somehow elude them.

Robert Walser

#11. When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.

Wayne Dyer

#12. As long as you are unaware of Being, the reality of other humans will elude you, because you have not found your own. Your mind will like or dislike their form, which is not just their body but includes their mind as well. True relationship becomes possible only when there is an awareness of Being.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Miguel De Unamuno

#14. From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#15. These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization.

Anais Nin

#16. It's funny how happiness can elude you for so long, and then you find out it's as easy as changing your mind."

---From "Hearts Reunited" (book 2 of the Law of Attraction trilogy) by Jeane Watier

Jeane Watier

#17. I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#18. Fragrance should never be worn like a thick scented choker, where the scent emanates from the neck in strong blasts like a foghorn! Rather, it should sparkle like twinkling stars, where small bursts disperse here and there, they elude us, pique our curiosity and make us want more.

Marian Bendeth

#19. While the splendors that elude us in youth are likely to receive our casual contempt in adolescence and our measured consideration in adulthood, they forever hold us in their thrall.

Amor Towles

#20. The Christmas spirit will elude you
'til a selfless love consumes you
and the joy of giving moves you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises," he said. "Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise on it and let it go too lightly.

Mary Balogh

#22. It was then as he discovered that death could elude him that the fear of death returned.

Paulo Coelho

#23. General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

William Hazlitt

#24. It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!" Was it not easier for the hero of Judaea to avoid the touch of the fair Philistine, than to elude her power when held in her arms?

Jane Porter

#25. But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

Hjalmar Schacht

#26. Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke.
Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

#27. The law is that you
must live
in the house you have built.
The law is absurd: it is
written down nowhere.
You are uncertain what crime
is, though each life writhing to
elude what it has made
feels like punishment.

Frank Bidart

#28. In the heat of the moment, rational thinking tends to elude us.

Carlos Wallace

#29. The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.

Mahesh Babu

#30. I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. When we persue happiness for it's own sake, it's like chasing the end of a rainbow. It will always elude us. It is when we're committed to some higher purpose that happiness somehow breaks through and comes to dwell with us.

Lawana Blackwell

#32. To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

George Santayana

#33. You too will seek your fortune, and you must be keen in obtaining it. If here you have learned to dodge a musket ball, there you must learn to elude envy, jealousy, greed, using those same weapons to combat your adversaries, namely, everyone.

Umberto Eco

#34. The power of psychedelics ... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

Sam Harris

#35. If you care for your mind, if you nurture it and if you cultivate it just like a fertile, rich garden, it will blossom far beyond your expectations. But if you let the weeds take root, lasting peace of mind and deep inner harmony will always elude you.

Robin S. Sharma

#36. At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

Anais Nin

#37. But to elude death
is not easy: attempt it who will,
he shall go to the place prepared for each
of the sons of men, the soul-bearers
dwelling on earth, ordained them by fate:
laid fast in that bed, the body shall sleep
when the feast is done.

Michael Alexander

#38. [He taught her] that life is interwoven with suffering. That in every life, without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we will age, and that we cannot elude death. These are the laws and conditions of human existence.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#39. He'll elude them.

Stephenie Meyer

#40. Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.

Ibn Arabi

#41. I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.

Angela Davis

#42. How far is one to go to elude nothing? Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?

Albert Camus

#43. For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

Evelyn Underhill

#44. Presiding over the entire attack there will be, in du Bois Reymond's words, "a general feeling of disorder," which may be experienced in either physical or emotional terms, and tax or elude the patient's powers of description.

Oliver Sacks

#45. Dreams get shattered, hopes are belied, aspirations delude and opportunities elude us. Clouds have the power to conceal the sunshine and our radiance fails to ignite positive thoughts unless we embellish our thoughts and emotions, which can be trained to veer into a positive direction.

Balroop Singh

#46. Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

T.D. Jakes

#47. Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?

Andre Gide

#48. We have to kill them inside the program to get them out. The retrieval system is no longer working." Barbelo explained. "But Maverick's making it difficult. They found him and now he's helping them elude their deaths.

Jill Thrussell

#49. The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

Walter Lippmann

#50. This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

Michael Musto

#51. Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience.

Nicholas Stoller

#52. As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Chinua Achebe

#53. Once I checked my email, I would get lost in a book so I could feel the main character's pain instead of mine, laugh at her missteps rather than lament my own, and cheer for the happy ending that seemed to elude me.

Meredith Schorr

#54. Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

William Wordsworth

#55. Moreover, you can't stand so much as an hour of your own company
or spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truant
or fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.
But it's no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels

Horace

#56. You can spend all your life looking for things. The truth is that those things will elude you. Change your approach. Begin to seek God and you will see things running after you.

Theophilus Ajadi

#57. Peacefully ensconced in a small house on the outskirts of somewhere or other, enjoying a tranquillity in which I won't write the works I don't write now, and to keep on not writing them I'll come up with even better excuses than the ones I use today to elude myself.

Fernando Pessoa

#58. Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

Lynn Grabhorn

#59. And don't demand any sincerity from me, Milena. No one can demand it from me more than I myself and yet many things elude me, I'm sure, perhaps everything eludes me.

Franz Kafka

#60. I wish I could find words
serious, beautiful words
to describe it in the afternoon sunlight; the more I strive for them, the more they utterly elude me.

Dodie Smith

#61. Poppy was every fine, good, unselfish impulse that he would never have. She was every caring thought, loving gesture, happy moment, that he would never know. She was every minute of peaceful sleep that would forever elude him.
- Harry's thoughts

Lisa Kleypas

#62. House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

Mary Doria Russell

#63. She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.

Zora Neale Hurston

#64. It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

George Santayana

#65. Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It's for the love of story telling. Fame and fortune may elude you, but that's no reason to give up. Remember, there's always someone ready to listen to a good story.

Robert Bartram

#66. Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Georges Bataille

#67. Societies accomplished important goals that still elude politicians, specialists in public policy, social reformers, and philanthropists. They successfully created vast social and mutual aid networks among the poor that are now almost entirely absent in many atomistic inner cities.

David T. Beito

#68. The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

Samantha Harvey

#69. The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

Ian Somerhalder

#70. Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.

Stephan Jenkins

#71. All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#72. Women have their own way of comforting each other, and their tactics seemed to elude male kind.

Kiersten Fay

#73. Of course. Women are agile and fast." Poppy smiled ruefully. "Not enough to elude you, it seems."
- Harry & Poppy

Lisa Kleypas

#74. We don't have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.

Anita Moorjani

#75. In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

Daniel Dennett

#76. Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.

Roberto Bolano

#77. Dogs get after big living. They seem illiterate of worry, yet able to read joys that elude us. They quietly shout to us: Wag your backside to music instead of your tongue to malice.

Michael Cogdill

#78. I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy.

Valerie Ann Worwood

#79. Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#80. To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.

Fanny Burney

#81. Even if I did speak Irish, I'd always be considered an outsider here, wouldn't I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won't it? The private core will always be ... hermetic, won't it?

Brian Friel

#82. To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you ... a truth ... that used to elude you.

Norman Mailer

#83. But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

Richard Owen

#84. Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

John Tyler

#85. Truth and reread it daily: "When you seek happiness for yourself it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others you will find it yourself." Practice making meaningful

Wayne W. Dyer

#86. Never let hope elude you. That is life's biggest fumble.

Robert Zuppke

#87. Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

Georges Bataille

#88. The stunted pines elude capture
in a thousand sidetracked increments.
The wind will never understand them.
Like us it is forced to go on.

Richard Meier

#89. Unlike the summer sun,
my life has started to fade
Forsaken by the memories of thee,
which once shone like the jade.
My eyes elude the moist fear,
and are now as dry as hay
Melancholy cries are all I hear,
'Will you be there?' I daresay!

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#90. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

#91. It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#92. Words, it gave a rather convincing impression of trying to elude pursuit. The dry, faintly ironic delivery

Douglas Preston

#93. My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.

Maurice Allais

#94. Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

John Templeton

#95. Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#96. If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

Fred Bear

#97. Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.

Erma Bombeck

#98. What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Andre Gide

#99. Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

P. J. O'Rourke

#100. Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

Mahatma Gandhi