It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them. Gabriel García Márquez
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul - like pincers to catch hold of God. Simone Weil
Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they? Richard Adams
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones hands. The harder we grip, the more it slips through our fingers. Alan Watts