Ungraspable Quotes

#1. Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

Roger Caillois

#2. Reality is always too complicated - that's why it's ungraspable.

Pedro Juan Gutierrez

#3. Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear.

Alvaro Mutis

#4. Light didn't conduct truth as once he'd thought. There was nothing you could do to preserve truth. Light was only of use as a metaphor for the ungraspable moment.

Ali Shaw

#5. Eroticism challenges us to seek a different kind of resolution, to surrender to the unknown and ungraspable, and to breach the confines of the rational world.

Esther Perel

#6. It's not about him or you. It's what's between you, the connection.People can see it, even when you're trying to act casual. they don't want you, or him. Well, some do. But I think it's more...they want that energy, that ungraspable...something between you two."

"Is it love?

Jim Provenzano

#7. I think about how much of a good story seems to happen elsewhere, off the canvas or screen or page, in Europe or a backwater New Brunswick town, in what is left unsaid. A word on the tip of the tongue, ungraspable. The teasing smush of a feather boa over naked breasts in a striptease.

Lisa Moore

#8. When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

Colin Wilson

#9. This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable.
What are we touching right here and now?

Soen Nakagawa

#10. The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.

John O'Donohue

#11. The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

Henri Bergson

#12. Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.

Alberto Manguel

#13. A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

Kazuaki Tanahashi

#14. I wanted to go home to the safety of my bed and to my stuffed animals and to my people I'd known my whole life. I had nothing to say to anybody, and fervently prayed that no one there would have anything to say to me.

Rachel Cohn

#15. But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God's heaven and hell.

Oscar Wilde

#16. No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.

Hani

#17. I have a feeling that this is going to be a good year."
"What makes you think so?"
"I don't know ... It just has all the appearances of a good year."
"Have you looked in all the corners?

Charles M. Schulz

#18. Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

Simon Mainwaring