elusive pursuit Quotes

You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

The ghosts you chase you never catch.

It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.