Elusive Quotes

“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, "the blues" which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form.”
― William Styron , Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

“The power and the glory often navigate murky waters and reveal the fragility of their quest because power can either bolster or erode the glory and prove how elusive and precarious their vims and vigor are. ("The Power and the Glory")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“There's the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis - men who dream and desire both.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Love is a daily revel, a celebration of the magic of the ‘present moment’ rather than an elusive expectation of the future. (“Another empty room”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its creatures. Once by air, he thought, and now by water.”
― Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here

“Why did no one satisfy her? What was she looking for that she couldn't find? Her battered heart offered her no answers.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

“To get rejected so vehemently
Over and over again
Until some said it was the rejection I was after
No it wasn't
I wanted the intensity that you sometimes promised”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“....Love is not only wired, but elusive too.”
― Farooq A. Shiekh

“Peace is not elusive. It’s just that we want to create it, which doesn’t really make it elusive. It makes it impossible. Yet, the peace that I have is in remembering that with God, nothing is impossible.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is a kind of despair involved in creation which I am sure any artist knows all about. In art, as in morality, great things go by the board because at the crucial moment we blink our eyes. When is the crucial moment? Greatness is to recognize it and be able to hold it and to extend it. But for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter. And so we let each thing go, thinking vaguely that it will always be given to us to try again. Thus works of art, and thus whole lives of men, are spoilt by blinking and moving quickly on. I often found that I had ideas for stories, but by the time I had thought them out in detail they seemed to me hardly worth writing, as if I had already 'done' them: not because they were bad, but because they already belonged to the past and I had lost interest. My thoughts were soon stale to me. Some things I ruined by starting them too soon. Others by thinking them so intensely in my head that they were over before they began. Projects would change in a second from hazy uncommitted dreams into unsalvageable ancient history. Whole novels existed only in their titles.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“What emotion had so invaded me? Fear? It is sometimes curiously difficult to name the emotion from which one suffers. The naming of it is sometimes unimportant, sometimes crucial.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Happiness. What's that? I don't know. How can one be happy when one loves a demon?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“People wait until . . . until . . . until . . . They wait, and they wait, and they wait, until that fateful day when they wake up and realize that while they were sitting around, paying dues, earning their keep, waiting for that elusive “perfect time,” their entire life has passed them by.”
― Richie Norton

“Zo ondergaan in stilzwijgen
Ontzagwekkende gebergten
Van materie even vluchtig als
De blik van hij die niet bevat
Hun lot
Te zijn en te verdwijnen.”
― Anna Jae

“Oh Christ, if I could only have some happiness.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Happiness must exist. It can't all be made of pain. But what is happiness made of?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Ludens felt again that special curious anguish caused by glimpses of a happiness he would have felt if only things were different — which could be different, perhaps could easily be different — but somehow maddeningly were not.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“How can one discover what he feels?"

"I thought he might perhaps behave — quite differently with you?"

"No, no. We seem to know each other well but I think that's just because I parade my feelings. He's affectionate, detached, passive, absolutely passive."

"He's never told you about that place?"

"He's never talked about himself at all.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Just because YOU don’t know what someone is doing in their life, doesn’t mean they aren’t doing something. Perhaps you were the nobody that they thought it wasn’t worth sharing with”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“Be a limited edition of yourself; for elusive is valued.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“Sometimes life was just too burdensome to maintain your sanity. Sometimes you needed a refuge but finding one could be elusive. Like trying to catch a cloud.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

“I cannot find
a picture of you in my mind

to land on.”
― Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems

“Your future is illusive unless you live here and now.”
― Richie Norton

“The search for truth is like looking for the footsteps of a flying bird or like the attempt of a frog to embrace the hole in the ground in which he lives. This old Indonesian proverb serves to point to the elusiveness of truth.”
― Soedjatmoko