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I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp. By Christina Baker Kline Wind Grasp Acutely Aware Slip

People like that? People who don't want to be found? They're usually really good at staying lost. By Hannah Harrington People Found Lost Good Staying

I strive to be brief but I become obscure. By Horace Obscure Strive

I'm an enigma, an unknown. By Emmitt Smith Enigma Unknown

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries. By Christopher Pike Persistence Mysteries Key Solving

Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious. By Joseph Conrad Curiosity Selfrevelation Mysterious Forms Systematically

chased by the shadows of clouds. By John Connolly Chased Clouds Shadows

To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question. By Khang Kijarro Nguyen Answer Camouflage Question Ensnare Elusive

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery. By J.g. Holland Mystery Things Unrevealed Belong Kingdom

Stop looking for me. I'm not missing; I do not want to be found. I wish to remain vanishing. I don't want to go home. By Emily St. John Mandel Stop Missing Found Vanishing Home

I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.I am Divergent. And I can't be controlled. By Veronica Roth Abnegation Divergent Controlled Dauntlessi

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare. By Baruch Spinoza Rare Excellent Difficult

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often. By Burgess Meredith Disappear Public Eye Rediscovered

I don't want to be mysterious. By Claire Denis Mysterious

Start unknown, finish unforgettable. By Misty Copeland Start Unknown Finish Unforgettable

I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found.""That can be as hard as looking for a shadow. By Alice Hoffman Found Shadow Find Hard

Be obscure clearly. By E.b. White Obscure

Obscurity is the realm of error. By Luc De Clapiers Obscurity Error Realm

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. By Walt Whitman Failing Encouraged Fetch Missing Place

Some guys just slip under the radar. By Victor Cruz Radar Guys Slip

The unknown always passes for the marvellous. By Tacitus Marvellous Unknown Passes

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention. By Cecelia Ahern People Eyessometimes Time Missing Discover

When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown. By Israelmore Ayivor Obscured Unknown Isolated Achievements Wonderful

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. By Baltasar Gracian Obscure Strive

Struggling to be brief I become obscure. By Horace Struggling Obscure

I'm very cagey by nature. By Ben Mendelsohn Nature Cagey

Maybe it's not that I'm a Mysterious Girl. Maybe it's that I'm a Not Good Enough Girl. By Jenny Han Girl Mysterious Good

out of sight,out of mind By Homer Mind Sightout

He loves to hide, but only if you take the time to find him. And while I suspect that's true for most people, only a retard or a kid would admit it. By Peter Hedges Hide Loves Time Find People

Fate was sometimes inscrutable. By Frank Herbert Fate Inscrutable

Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside. By Chris Murray Seeking Gems Elusive Individuals Mining

His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain why he did not instantly disappear. By Joseph Conrad Inexplicable Improbable Bewildering Existence Altogether

One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself. By Jean Baudrillard Game Situations Seek Delicious Life

Or rather, I dreamed of her constantly, only as absence, not presence: a breeze blowing through a just-vacated house, her handwriting on a notepad, the smell of her perfume, streets in strange lost towns where I knew she'd been walking only a moment before but had just vanished, a shadow moving away against a sunstruck wall. Sometimes I spotted her in a crowd, or in a taxicab pulling away, and these glimpses of her I treasured despite the fact that I was never able to catch up with her. By Donna Tartt Constantly Absence Presence House Notepad

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details ... . By Jeff Bezos Vision Stubborn Details Flexible

But the rare herb, Forgetfulness, / It hides away from me. By Jeanne Robert Foster Forgetfulness Herb Rare Hides

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget. By Alysha Speer Hard Love Find Forget

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. By Horace Obscure Labouring

But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Determination and faith are their strongest weapons. At best such men are regarded as eccentric; at worst, mad ... Everest By Jon Krakauer Men Attraction Unattainable Special Experts

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. By Horace Obscure Struggle

The Shadow. It cannot be grasped. Chase your shadow and it will, flee; turn your back on it and it will follow you. It is also a person's dark side, the thing that makes them mysterious. After they have given us pleasure, the shadow of their withdrawal makes us yearn for their return, much as clouds make us yearn for the sun. By Robert Greene Shadow Yearn Makes Grasped Flee

I was also caught by absence in all its forms. By Paul Eluard Forms Caught Absence

The secret to disappearing is to stay where you are. By Richard House Secret Disappearing Stay

You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it. By Conrad Aiken Lying Spreading Sound Sudden Forest

The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet ... By Deborah Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire Missing Word Cruel Leaving Circumstances

Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him. By Michel De Montaigne Variable Vain Elusive Constant Uniform

I am circling, looking for something within my reach, but beyond my grasp. By Fennel Hudson Circling Reach Grasp

I'm easy to look at, but so hard to see. By Oprah Winfrey Easy Hard

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire. By Rumi Found Desire

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. By Thomas A Kempis Sight Mind Wrong Absent

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for? By Sanhita Baruah Tricky Questions Secretly Answers Ofwhat

In trying to be concise I become obscure. By Horace Obscure Concise

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists. By Jhumpa Lahiri Mystery Persists World Diminishing Unknown

Her absence is a presence, ghostly and haunting, touching all who knew her. It is impossible that she disappeared, inconceivable that she will never return. She is at once nowhere and everywhere, a constant shadow, elusory and insubstantial, her life an unkept promise, a half-remembered dream. By Christina Baker Kline Presence Ghostly Haunting Touching Absence

In fact, for all the secrets and formulas, for all the self-proclaimed thought leadership, success in business is as elusive as ever. By Philip M. Rosenzweig Fact Formulas Leadership Success Secrets

Sleep, elusive as a ghost, plaintive as a widow, and as easy to hold as the wind. By Jeff Salyards Sleep Elusive Ghost Plaintive Widow

O my God, how does it happen in this poor world that you are so great and yet nobody finds you, that you call so loudly and yet nobody hears you, that you are so near and yet nobody feels you, that you give yourself to everybody and yet nobody knows your name? Men flee from you and say they cannot find you; they turn their backs and say they cannot see you; they stop their ears and say they cannot hear you. By Hans Denck God Happen Poor World Great

I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember. By Cameron Crowe Forget Remember Impossible Hard

...strangely alone in the most public of places. By Sara Gruen Strangely Places Public

Impossible is my specialty. By Marissa Meyer Impossible Specialty

People either see me or they don't. By Jennifer Niven People

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls. By Taylor Caldwell Obscurity Souls Fire Ambition Stalwart

Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. By Robert Fulghum Grownup Style Wanting Hide Needing

Perhaps it is this which keeps you from findingpeace, perhaps it is the many words By Hermann Hesse Findingpeace Words

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united. By Jack London Pursuit United Possession Accompanied States

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time. By E. M. Forster Mysterious Time

Impossible is just another word for 'loser who gives up. By Michele Jaffe Impossible Loser Word

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence. By Tobsha Learner Love Sea Full Absent Presence

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer. By Edward R. Murrow Longer Obscure Sooner Obvious

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken By David Platt Unreached Reason Difficult Peoples Hard

She was invisible. Forgettable. Forgotten. By Johnny Worthen Forgettable Invisible Forgotten

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po. By Oliver Goldsmith Remote Unfriended Melancholy Slow Scheld

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. By Horace Concise Obscure Labouring

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which. By James A. Owen Conundrum Enigma Forget

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out. By Charlotte Eriksson Constantly Torn Hidden God Damn

Things always seem to glide away.They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again. By Markus Zusak Things Stay Moment Glide Awaythey

You and I won't lose each other, I will always find you again. No matter how well you hide. I'm unstoppable. By Stephenie Meyer Lose Find Hide Unstoppable Matter

Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful By Donna Cooner Hopeless Freak Elephant Pitiful

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible. By Simon Sinek Remarkable Invisible

Utterly, irrevocably, lost By Oscar Wilde Utterly Irrevocably Lost

I can only assume that there's only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that's not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything. By Cecelia Ahern Found Find Assume Thing Frustrating

Sometimes we are mysteries to ourselves. By Joshua Gaylord Mysteries

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure. By Jonathan Swift Leisure Measure Find Round World

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing. By C.j. Cherryh Watch Disappearing Man Enemies

I'm terrifically absentminded. By James Jannard Absentminded Terrifically

For the evaders, avoiders, dodgers, and side-steppers.You probably have a good reason for hiding.May you work through it and find your inner lion. By Jenn Bennett Avoiders Dodgers Evaders Lion Good

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed. By Dan Fogelberg Easily Mystery Captured Deceased Exhumed

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real. By Joyce Cary Concept Label Real Perpetually Hiding

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. By Jodi Picoult Extraordinary Things Hiding Places People

I am a mystery to myself. By Angelina Grimke Mystery

Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you. By Cherie Priest Vision Creature Times Fickle Unchanged

Obstinate, headstrong girl! By Jane Austen Obstinate Headstrong Girl

Fix your gazes on the invisible. By Lailah Gifty Akita Fix Invisible Gazes

Lost in a daydream. By Jared Leto Lost Daydream

The absence of him is everywhere I look. By Stephenie Meyer Absence

You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it. By Sarah Dessen Neck Collars Key Hung Low

Absolute perfection is insidious. By Chirag Tulsiani Absolute Insidious Perfection

The mistiness of distance hides the truth By Isaac Asimov Truth Mistiness Distance Hides

In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful. By Mehek Bassi Emotions Oyster Sea Presence Pearl

Persistence is often a detective's greatest ally. By Lara Adrian Persistence Ally Detective Greatest