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Quotes About Elusive

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.
~ William Styron
This word natsukashii seemed to be made of mist, a mist I was wandering through with unsteady steps.
~ Y?ko Tawada
La felicidad se escurre, no tiene forma, se escapa por una rendija sin que lo percibamos. Es difícil reconocerla, y cuando nos damos cuenta de que nos bañamos en ella, es porque ya nos falta.
~ Javier Moro
But the rare herb, Forgetfulness, / It hides away from me.
~ Jeanne Robert Foster
Looking back now, it is easy to feel as if she alone knew that success and happiness in life were more elusive even than an Ivy League diploma.
~ Jeff Hobbs
Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.
~ Eknath Easwaran
I got that familiar mania - there is information somewhere here, and I can find it, I have to. A good librarian is not so different from a prospector, her whole brain a divining rod. She walks to books and stands and wonders: here? Is the answer here? The same blind faith in finding, even when hopeless. If someone caught me when I was in the throes of tracking something elusive, I would have told them: but it's out there. I can feel it.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I don't find it, I don't think it is to be found. It's like passionate love for a ghost
~ Alice Notley
you are so bodiless, so barely there
~ Alice Oswald
she never quite completes her sentence but is always almost
~ Alice Oswald
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
~ Branford Marsalis
There's an elusive element to comedy, but nobody gets it for free. That's why comedians seldom criticise each other.
~ Sean Lock
Diderot's solution to the limits of language was to become himself a worker: "There are machines so hard to describe and skills so elusive that ... it has often been necessary to get hold of such machines, set them in operation, and lend one's hand to the work.
~ Richard Sennett
Niets is een grotere kwelling dan een herinnering die net buiten de grenzen van het geheugen zweeft
~ Roald Dahl
Over the centuries, people have placed a wall around such mastery. They have called it genius and have thought of it as inaccessible. They have seen it as the product of privilege, inborn talent, or just the right alignment of the stars. They have made it seem as if it were as elusive as magic. But that wall is imaginary.
~ Robert Greene
Search for the Elusive And The best at dialogue refuse Fool's Choices by setting up new choices. They present themselves with tougher questions—questions that turn the either/or choice into a search for the all-important and ever-elusive and. (It is an endangered species, you know.) Here's how this works.
~ Kerry Patterson
She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. "Nothing like life, in other words," he said. "There, it's questions with either no answers or messy ones.
~ Khaled Hosseini
She said There was comfort to be found in mathematical truths, the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. nothing like life, in other words , he said
~ Khaled Hosseini
She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It is that too." She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. "Nothing like life, in other words," he said. "There, it's questions with either no answers or messy ones.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Tebe se ne može uopšte ni uhvatiti. Ti si kao ovo elektri?no svetlo. Vatra, koja je stvorena samo za o?i, samo za gledanje. Ima tu ipak i nešto topline, ali ne kao u pe?i.
~ Knut Hamsun
Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.
~ Frederick Leboyer
This was going to be like hunting black cats at midnight on a moonless night.
~ Avery Flynn, Bang