Eludes Us Quotes

20 quotes by 20 authors

Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other… — Elie Wiesel
Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that… — K.P. Yohannan
It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us. — Ananda Coomaraswamy
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the… — Igor Stravinsky
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing… — Michael Leunig
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought. — Mason Cooley
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. — Barbara Tuchman
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We… — Jeanette Winterson
Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us. — Leo Buscaglia
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power… — Richard Rohr
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is… — Alain de Botton
The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire… — Victor Hugo
schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept… — Bell Hooks
Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to… — Italo Calvino
We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we… — Erich Fromm
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness… — Milan Kundera
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. — William Barrett
I wonder how many people wake up each day to face or hide from emptiness. Emptiness in a job, relationship, pursuit and other facets of… — Trinity Chasara

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