Elusive Quotes

191 Elusive quotes by 175 unique authors

Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most… — Hunter S. Thompson
Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence… — Laura Moriarty
It doesnâ€™t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you… — Hillary Jordan
Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not… — Dean Karnazes
Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that… — Mark Nepo
I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve… — Isabel Allende
It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive. — Lisa Kleypas
I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect--… — William Styron
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated;… — Lynne Truss
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue â€” just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according… — Melissa de la Cruz
Suppressing his relief, Valek asked, â€œCan you please tell this Lieutenant who he has arrested?â€ â€œCan do,â€ Janco said with a smile. â€œLieutenant Darren, let… — Maria V. Snyder
Dear John, There's so much I want to say to you, but I'm not sure where I should begin. Should I start by telling you… — Nicholas Sparks
There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can… — Werner Herzog
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, itâ€™s appearance,… — W S Merwin

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