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Quotes About Elusion

Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
excuse to run away from the
~ Ann Cleeves
D?vains v?rietis… K? zivs… Kas vienm?r aizlok?s un izsl?d no rok?m…
~ Anna Gavalda
I remind myself that I know the difference between elusion and delusion. It is the separation between desire and belief. I know what separates the past from the present. What lies between then and now, it is but a moment, an easy thing to lose.
~ Amy Tan
I'm constantly running away from everything. I'm running away from things on a daily basis. I run away from relationships. I run away from responsibilities.
~ Norman Reedus
The pursuer's blind spot is that he never thinks he's being pursued.
~ Haruki Murakami
That's it. Evasion is key.
~ Stefan Zweig
Have you ever wished that you could disappear from all this?
~ Bret Easton Ellis
And suddenly Vincent clearly realised what his subconsciousness had known for a long time. All the talks about God are just childish elusion, just a lie that calms a scared and lonely ordinary mortal in a dark and neverending night. There is no God. Sure as fate - there is no God. There is only chaos - dismal, painful, cruel, agonizing, blind, endless chaos.
~ Irving Stone
No one saw firedrake as he made his escape along the canal.
~ Cornelia Funke
Any idea where he might go if he did run away? Did he talk
~ Peter Robinson