Elude Us Quotes

• At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

  Norman Maclean

  Love, Elude You, Understanding

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• Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

  Norman Maclean

  Love, Inspirational, God

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• For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Beauty, Attention, Vegan

  Evelyn Underhill, Dana Greene (1988). “Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy”, p.75, SUNY Press

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• Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

  Georges Bataille

  Scary, Secret, Facts

  Georges Bataille (1991). “The Trial of Gilles de Rais”, Amok Books

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• It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

  Norman Maclean

  Friendship, Elude You, Sunrise

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.104, University of Chicago Press

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• General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

  William Hazlitt

  Philosophy, Air, Important

  William Hazlitt (1809). “The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches of the Most Distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary Speakers, from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I. to the Present Time”, p.209

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• But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Sympathy, Strong, Elude You

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• At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

  Norman Maclean

  Elude You, Sunrise, Clear

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

  John Tyler

  Elude You, Presidential, Coquette

  Message to the House, December 18, 1816.

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• Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Believe, Growth, Belief

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• But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

  Richard Owen

  Vagueness, Tests, Facts

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• If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

  Anna Quindlen

  Elude You, Want Something, Literature

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.260, Ballantine Books

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• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Memories, Past

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials.

  Michael Musto

  Commitment, Knowing, Elude You

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• If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

  Steve Coogan

  Elude You, Elude, Ifs

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• 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 that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us.

  Bell Hooks

  School, How To Love, Assuming

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• 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 not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Knowing, Attention, Bitter

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes form 'no-mind.' It comes form just being. You are already enlightened. You just have to realize it to allow it into your experience.

  Anita Moorjani

  Spiritual, Mind, Enlightenment

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• 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 verbs and other images. No, that wasn't it either. But what exactly was that it I was searching for? It must have been all that eludes us, hidden behind a veil so as not to be stolen, usurped and trivialized. Words seemed weak and pale.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Mean, Verbs

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• 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 in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Self, Perfection

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Georges Bataille

  Order, Elude

  Georges Bataille (2012). “Literature and Evil”, p.25, Penguin UK

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• 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 harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Makeup, Men

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12466, Delphi Classics

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• It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

  William Barrett

  Inspirational, Life, Vision

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• 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 of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Sadness, Sight

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• Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Generations, Absolute Certainty

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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