Eludes Quotes
On the things that stay just out of grasp.
Something that eludes us keeps slipping away no matter how hard we chase it, and these quotes explore that frustration across creative work, identity, and desire. See art quotes for more on the creative struggle behind the words.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
Alone Quotes
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind...
I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to...
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
America Quotes
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy...
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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What does it mean when something 'eludes' someone in these quotes?
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Whether it's a national identity or a personal goal, the idea of something eluding us ties closely to longing. Compare with alone quotes for another angle on things left unresolved.
