Top 95 Quotes About Hide And Seek
#1. It's hard not
to jump out
instead of
waiting to be
found. It's
hard to be
alone so long
and then hear
someone come
around. It's
like some form
of skin's developed
in the air
that, rather
than have torn,
you tear.
Hide and Seek
Kay Ryan
#2. "So what's it tonight?" she asked. "Tag? Hide and seek? Fetch?"
I gave a soft growl at the last one and she laughed.
"Someday, I'm going to teach you to fetch," she said.
Kelley Armstrong
#3. Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back.
Santosh Kalwar
#4. The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
Sri Aurobindo
#5. If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#6. Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
George Eliot
#7. All these last months he had begun to talk about Sarima and the family as if they were ghosts, hiding just around the curve of the spiral staircase in the tower, suppressing giggles at this long, long game of hide-and-seek.
Gregory Maguire
#8. Did he still know any of the children he'd played with at that party? Hide-and-seek: He'd hidden so well that he'd become dead, and even when he'd been resurrected, he was still obscured from them. He had stumbled on to a different road by accident.
Maggie Stiefvater
#9. Glimpses through the clouds of numerous and enormous Second Free Zone residential arks and barges lumbering through their selective tracks like a slow-motion game of hide and seek played by listless, blunt whales.
Kieran Shea
#10. As I left, promising to mention her to my father, Olga said: Now you can play hide-and-seek in the whole
world.
J.G. Ballard
#11. I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.
Michael Jackson
#12. He would have been far more attractive to her if she could have trusted him. You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned.
Mary McCarthy
#13. One time my whole family played hide and seek. They found my mother in Pittsburgh!
Rodney Dangerfield
#14. What's up?" He nodded his head, playing it cool, then casually stepped away before silently returning to a sprint.
Playing hide-and-seek like babies, Jason thought. I hope I never fall in love.
Scott Cawthon
#15. I've always had stamina. It's a genetic thing. Don't forget, I'm from the era where we played outside, so there was no issue with weight because we were out running around the fields and playing hide and seek.
Tracie Bennett
#16. I sat down, turning the pages of my notebook in search of a blank page, in the dim light of my room. The arrival of nightfall had invited leafy shadows to play hide and seek in the glass reflection of the window. I smiled as one of these mischievous shadows crept across the page in a midnight dance.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#17. The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
Alan Watts
#18. As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves.
Yahia Lababidi
#19. Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
Gunter Grass
#20. Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
Ameen Rihani
#21. After all, we all know Hide and Seek can be a scary game, especially when we don't want to be found.
Callie Hunter
#22. Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.
Khalil Gibran
#24. Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.
Rob Brezsny
#25. Let's absurdify life, from east to west.
Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.
Fernando Pessoa
#26. As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
Yo-Yo Ma
#27. In this divine game of hide-and-seek
stop pretending
there is any place to hide.
Ivan M. Granger
#28. If you do not learn to think today, tomorrow someone else will do and will wangle you.
THE WOMAN THAT USED TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK, a story by David Cotos.
David Cotos
#29. I tried not to think about it too much, though. I was good at mental hide and seek. If I couldn't see it, it couldn't see me. I
April White
#30. He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game
only with higher stakes and greater consequences.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#31. She was probably too cool, too self-possessed. Some of our classmates must have thought her cold and haughty. But I detected something else- something warm and fragile just below the surface. Something very much like a child playing hide-and-seek, hidden deep within her, yet hoping to be found.
Haruki Murakami
#32. It appears to be a re-run of a bad movie. [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain - he's not disarming.
George W. Bush
#33. True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.
Michael Bassey
#34. If a man stole my dinner, I might let him run; but if he stole my horse, he and I and death would play hide-and-seek! ~~ Ranjoor Singh
Talbot Mundy
#35. I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
Alan Watts
#37. Our news bulletins were full of killings and death, so it was natural for Atal to think of coffins and graves. Instead of hide-and-seek and cops and robbers, children were now playing army vs. Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai
#38. What was the point of hide-and-seek if you weren't allowed to dig pit traps or attack your opponents from behind? That
Seanan McGuire
#39. I'm not single, I'm just wait for my girlfriend to quit playing hide and seek.
Tim Walters
#40. Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
Robert Fulghum
#41. Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.
Ryan Lochte
#42. Hide and Seek
It's hard not
to jump out
instead of waiting to be
found. It's
hard to be
alone so long
and then hear
someone come
around. It's
like some form
of skin's developed
in the air
that, rather
than have torn,
you tear.
Kay Ryan
#43. Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?
Maud Hart Lovelace
#44. God has created the world to play hide-and-seek with man.
Kedar Joshi
#45. Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic."
"Sure you were," Jason said. "You're just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.
Brandon Mull
#46. SPENCER: Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.
Sara Shepard
#47. I was hiding my heart and you were hiding yours too and we played hide and seek together and both of us lost.
Terra Elan McVoy
#48. Friendship is like a stubborn child who is playing hide and seek with your life. You have to find him at the darkest places of your heart in difficult times. And when you find the child; his smile will light up the darkness of your life.
Sandeep Sharma
#49. Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.
John Lahr
#50. Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.
Wm. Paul Young
#51. Women are very clear and
transparent, anyone can read them,
they don't play 'hide and seek'
like men. #LIFE OF LOVE
Santonu Kumar Dhar
#52. Because the game of hide-and-seek was still going on, it took Edmund and Lucy some time to find the others. But when at last they were
C.S. Lewis
#53. I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are 'it' all their lives - hopelessly 'it.
John Steinbeck
#54. When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.
Rodney Dangerfield
#55. Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.
Sasa Stanisic
#56. But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#57. When we were kids and would play hide and seek you found me before anyone else. Always. I thought you were magic."
"No magic, Nina. You were the only one I ever looked for.
Blayne Cooper
#58. But there are ideals which do not play hide-and-seek with our life; they slowly grow from seed to flower, from flower to fruit; they require infinite space and heaven's light to mature, and the fruits that they produce can survive years of insult and neglect.
Rabindranath Tagore
#59. You know our Alice. She plays hide-and-seek but sometimes forgets to ask someone to look for her.
Gregory Maguire
#60. Ready or not, here I come
I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek
Olly olly oxen free
Show yourself, you're scaring me
Come out, come out, where ever you are
You've taken this thing way too far
Sonya Sones
#61. Joke:
What did the little firefly say to his friends when they played hide-and-seek?
Ready or not, here I glow!
Heather Wolf
#62. I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'
Natalie Portman
#63. I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.
Dan Brown
#64. Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#65. If God is playing hide and seek with us, I must confess that I am quite bored with this childish game!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.
Philippa Gregory
#67. When I caught up, I grabbed Jack's arm. "What are you
doing here?" "Hiding! That's how you play the game, right? I thought
the title hide-and-seek was fairly self-explanatory. Then
again, you are blond." "So are you, idiot. Again, what are you doing here?
Kiersten White
#68. We play hide-and-seek, wade into her ponds to fill jam jars with writhing tadpoles, and cavort with her pack of dogs, named Brandy, Whiskey, Lager, so that just calling the pack makes one feel light-headed and drunk.
Nayomi Munaweera
#69. Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement.
Megan Webster
#70. When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
Pierre Nicole
#71. Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
Blaise Pascal
#72. Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.
Tom Robbins
#73. I tend to hide behind my status of being a diva; it's easy for me to embrace that part of me and seek confidence by being a bit outrageous at times.
Alex Newell
#74. Education jargon is the language of pedants; it identifies those who have so little confidence in themselves and their work that they seek to create a veil of words to hide them.
Ted Sizer
#75. Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
Myles Munroe
#76. It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They never remembered having seen her. She did not like to seem (even to herself) so much more caught up in the importance of others when they cared so little for her.
Elizabeth Taylor
#77. There is no moment in which we say good-bye, there is no finality as he slips into peacefulness, he simply leaves us, and though I seek courage when he passes I am weakened by tears, but I must hide them for he leaves us a lie to conceal, a lie he sent to save us.
Lisa O'Donnell
#78. The rain hit the windows like rice; the fire roared hollowly; the autumn afternoon discoloured into darkness.
Elizabeth Taylor
#79. Furniture!" bellowed the witch. "Tables, bathtub, the lot of you. It's time to go out in the world and seek your fortunes, if that's your hope." There was a crashing sound as all the furniture went and tried to hide under the bed, and the bed tried to hide under itself.
Gregory Maguire
#80. About a month ago some kids in my neighborhood were playing hide-and-go-seek and one of them ended up in an abandoned refrigerator. It's all anybody talked about for weeks. I said, 'Who cares? How many kids you know get to die a winner?
Anthony Jeselnik
#81. Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#82. It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
Michel De Montaigne
#83. The smaller girl hid her eyes with her hands, and Ewan smiled. Did she think that would make her invisible?
C.J. Milbrandt
#84. To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#85. Seeing one face continually in crowds is one of the minor annoyances of being in love.
Elizabeth Taylor
#86. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.
David W. Earle
#87. She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion.
Elizabeth Taylor
#88. Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.
Mason Cooley
#89. She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
Elizabeth Taylor
#90. Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
Elizabeth Taylor
#91. You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.
Wilkie Collins
#92. Life's what you see in people's eyes; life's what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it, cease to be aware of
what? That life's like that, it seems.
Virginia Woolf
#93. When cowards hide behind great walls, it is they who are defeated, Khaleesi," Ko Jhogo said. Her other bloodriders concurred. "Blood of my blood," said Rakharo, "when cowards hide and burn the food and fodder, great khals must seek for braver foes. This is known.
George R R Martin
#95. You don't run from someone and expect them to follow unless you want a stalker," he said. "You fool. All I wanted was to play hide-n-seek!
Donna Lynn Hope
