Elude Quotes

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

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

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

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

The contour eludes me.

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

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

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

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

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

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

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

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.