Virtue makes for a cold bed.
Beauty becomes tinged with sadness when experienced alone.
You haunt me, Mina. Even before I knew you, I felt your absence.
What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up.
By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you end up inadvertently extending the introverted existence of a teenager deep into middle age.
The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.
If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Kids chase the love that eludes them.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation.
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.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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 groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.
