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“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
― D.W. Winnicott

“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The children seek to resolve the issue amongst themselves, and mete out punishment to restore balance and keep the game going.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“Let us not be afraid of “sayingâ€� what we are “seeingâ€� without censoring anything, or looking away and playing hide and seek. By naming things well, we avoid clutter in our mind and torment in the world. ("Man without Qualities" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Ready or not, here I come
I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek
Olly olly oxen free
Show yourself, you're scaring me
Come out, come out, where ever you are
You've taken this thing way too far”
― Sonya Sones, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

“After all, we all know Hide and Seek can be a scary game, especially when we don't want to be found.”
― Callie Hunter

“Last night I sat at dinner
And observed my family
Playing Hide and Seek all evening.
Today I woke and thought of you
About how real you’ve made my life�
The only condition? Love itself.
Tonight I weep
And think of how
I love and want and need you.
But I don't tell you. No.
I am too busy playing Hide and Seek
To let you know.”
― Kate McGahan

“I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are 'it' all their lives - hopelessly 'it.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that intersected and turned into dead-end porches and rooms full of wax begonias and elephant's- ears, or rooms full of trunks. She remembered the nights--the moon vine, the everblooming Cape jessamines, the verbena smelling under running feet, the lateness of dancers.”
― Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding / The Ponder Heart

“Did you have a kid in your neighborhood who always hid so good, nobody could find him? We did. After a while we would give up on him and go off, leaving him to rot wherever he was. Sooner or later he would show up, all mad because we didn't keep looking for him. And we would get mad back because he wasn't playing the game the way it was supposed to be played.

There's hiding and there's finding, we'd say. And he'd say it was hide-and-seek, not hide-and-give-UP, and we'd all yell about who made the rules and who cared about who, anyway, and how we wouldn't play with him anymore if he didn't get it straight and who needed him anyhow, and things like that. Hide-and-seek-and-yell. No matter what, though, the next time he would hide too good again. He's probably still hidden somewhere, for all I know.

As I write this, the neighborhood game goes on, and there is a kid under a pile of leaves in the yard just under my window. He has been there a long time now, and everybody else is found and they are about to give up on him over at the base. I considered going out to the base and telling them where he is hiding. And I thought about setting the leaves on fire to drive him out. Finally, I just yelled, "GET FOUND, KID!" out the window. And scared him so bad he probably wet his pants and started crying and ran home to tell his mother. It's real hard to know how to be helpful sometimes.

A man I know found out last year he had terminal cancer. He was a doctor. And knew about dying, and he didn't want to make his family and friends suffer through that with him. So he kept his secret. And died. Everybody said how brave he was to bear his suffering in silence and not tell everybody, and so on and so forth. But privately his family and friends said how angry they were that he didn't need them, didn't trust their strength. And it hurt that he didn't say good-bye.

He hid too well. Getting found would have kept him in the game. Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. "I don't want anyone to know." "What will people think?" "I don't want to bother anyone."

Better than hide-and-seek, I like the game called Sardines. In Sardines the person who is It goes and hides, and everybody goes looking for him. When you find him, you get in with him and hide there with him. Pretty soon everybody is hiding together, all stacked in a small space like puppies in a pile. And pretty soon somebody giggles and somebody laughs and everybody gets found.

Medieval theologians even described God in hide-and-seek terms, calling him Deus Absconditus. But me, I think old God is a Sardine player. And will be found the same way everybody gets found in Sardines - by the sound of laughter of those heaped together at the end.

"Olly-olly-oxen-free." The kids out in the street are hollering the cry that says "Come on in, wherever you are. It's a new game." And so say I. To all those who have hid too good. Get found, kid! Olly-olly-oxen-free.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarden

“Come Amara, play with me. Let’s finish our game of hide and seekâ€�”
― Mya Gray, Hide and Seek

“She looks at her window and sees the moon playing hide-and-seek behind the clouds.”
― LaTasha Reynolds, Bryla's Amazing Imagination: Bryla Visits the Moon

“...this cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So many of the symbols can be interpreted in so many different ways, there's always the possibility that all we're really looking at is a blank slate onto which anything can be read.”
― Brad Meltzer, History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

“You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.”
― Wilkie Collins, Hide And Seek

“Love does not recognise the terms hide and seek. When it happens, it becomes visible without any fear or hesitation.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“You cannot hide and seek your fate; you cannot seek and hide your karma”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“You’re my favorite place to hide whether
intentionally or unintentionally;
A place my soul could grab a pillow & just lay.
A place that I’ve memorized every sound.
Every smell.
The goosebumps that hide beneath the
Paint on the wall.
It’s become instinct to come here.
It reminds me of home, my favorite place to hide.
Where everything feels bigger than what it really is
Surrounded by the faint smell of perfume,
The closest I’ve ever felt to you.
I love it here as everything feels uninterrupted.
A place where time feels like it stopped
Where I can snuggle up with my thoughts of you
& sleep.
Rather it’s the light that shines through when
You open your eyes or the dark that accompanies
Your lashes when they close.
This is my favorite place to hide.
The part of you that I wish to remain.
The only thing I dream no matter where I am at”
― Kewayne Wadley, Mumbo Jumbo... I Love You

“God is present everywhere. Wherever you turn, He is Open your eyes, He is, close your eyes and He is - because nothing else exists. God means isness.

God is life - hence God is movement, hence God is constant change; that is the paradox of existence. It is something that never changes and yet constantly changes. At the innermost core everything remains the same, but on the circumference nothing is ever the same. God is change and no-change. God is eternity and flux.

If you look at the world, you look at the manifest God, which is constant change - it is like a river moving and moving - but if you look at the unmanifest, then God is always the same. God is both.

This world is not separate from God. You need not go in search of Him anywhere else; He is hidden here, He is playing hide-and-seek here”
― Osho, The Guest: Talks on Kabir: Fifteen Spontaneous Talks

“The smaller girl hid her eyes with her hands, and Ewan smiled. Did she think that would make her invisible?”
― C.J. Milbrandt, Aboard the Train

“Don’t hide yourself from the world and don’t let the world hide himself from you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“This not how you hide, Corin!”
― Tamar Bobokhidze, Nora's First Day at School

“Well, first off. The Divine is obvious. One of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah is Az-Zhahir, The Obvious, the Conspicuous and the Clear. It's not as if you have to go anywhere or do anything to find the Divine. Do you think the Divine would play hide-and-go-seek with you?”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“You have an evasive hungry mind that must perpetually destroy the road beneath your feet. To hide and to seek at the same time frustrates progress.

[Mrs. Leonard, to Hugh Everton]”
― Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

“Lord, are you telling me that you are not really a god?"

"I am telling you that I do not play hide-and-seek with death.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Same Old, Game Old by Stewart Stafford

On the first day of the new year,
Chronos's roulette wheel rolls,
Seeing the thermometer do 60,
Scraping shadows off the fridge.

Teddy bear plays hide-and-seek,
With a giant, grey beast that barks,
And an elephant with a rainbow gut,
But some things should go AWOL

Dinner plate talismans bring cheer,
Windfall greens and Jupiter peas,
Coins tossed in an oracle's grotto,
Marching into the fog of life ahead.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“You are the beloved of each other; real and fair love does not have hide and seek and tricks. Your love should be crystal clear, and there should not be any wall, between two hearts, except modesty.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“He had betrayed God and wanted to hide from him, the way children hide, sitting in the open and covering their eyes.”
― Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

“The best seekers often know how to spot clues in the environment—subtle shifts, movements, or hints left behind by their hiders.”
― Aaron Gilbee, Hide’n’Seek: How he got caught peeking