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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.
The contour eludes me.
Kids chase the love that eludes them.
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.
If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.
Never let hope elude you. That is life's biggest fumble.
I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.
I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever.
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.
The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.
Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.
Well, love is a difficult thing to hold on to. It's a slippery little beast. It will hold you and then it will elude you at any moment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.
The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.
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.
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.
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.
