If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

We don’t have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.

The power of psychedelics… is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

I do also think it eludes genre a bit – not in any groundbreaking way but you can’t quite call it a comedy and you can’t quite call it a romantic anything. It’s not quite a drama either really. But it has elements of all those things.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you’re after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn’t going to translate to an audience.

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. . . .

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

The contour eludes me.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

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.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our minds. Like it or nor, our human experience of anything or anybody is always incomplete: there is usually something that eludes us, some portion of experience that evades our grasp.

The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player‘s nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.

Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.

Table talk and Lovers‘ talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers’ talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Never let hope elude you. That is life‘s biggest fumble.

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.

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.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else‘s being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.

Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be …hermetic, won’t it?

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.

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.

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.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

I love the relationship that anyone has with music … because there’s something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. … It’s the best part of us probably.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you’ll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.

Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father‘s love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He establishes the category of “founder of discursivity” for the authors he likes. Slippery, perhaps, but you can see what he means.

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you… a truth… that used to elude you.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

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.

It has been wisely said, “that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!” Was it not easier for the hero of Judaea to avoid the touch of the fair Philistine, than to elude her power when held in her arms?

In 50 years – or 20 years, or 200 years – our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you – indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

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

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

I’m certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don’t even have a computer, I don’t have a cell phone.

The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it’s right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

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.