Quotes about Absorbed

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective. Votes: 3

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. Votes: 3

I was too absorbed to be responsive Votes: 0

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them. Votes: 0

There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion. Votes: 0

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love. Votes: 0

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing. Votes: 0

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. Votes: 0

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed. Votes: 0

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it. Votes: 0

There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit... Votes: 0

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. Votes: 0

Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. Votes: 0

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. Votes: 0

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. Votes: 0

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power. Votes: 0

What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films. Votes: 0

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. Votes: 0

Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do. Votes: 0

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again. Votes: 0

Never be too absorbed by your own ambitions to encourage those of your family. Votes: 0

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. Votes: 0

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him. Votes: 0

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings. Votes: 0

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness. Votes: 0

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise. Votes: 0

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed. Votes: 0

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. Votes: 0

Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed. Votes: 0

Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana. Votes: 0

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good. Votes: 0

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated. Votes: 0

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting. Votes: 0

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them. Votes: 0

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too. Votes: 0

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated. Votes: 0

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do. Votes: 0

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. Votes: 0

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. Votes: 0

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich. Votes: 0

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood, Votes: 0

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others. Votes: 0

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England. Votes: 0

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated. Votes: 0

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. Votes: 0

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit Votes: 0

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. Votes: 0

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book. Votes: 0

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. Votes: 0

I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed. Votes: 0

American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel. Votes: 0

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. Votes: 0

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Votes: 0

I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood. Votes: 0

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. Votes: 0

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. Votes: 0

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied. Votes: 0

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand. Votes: 0

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content. Votes: 0

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord. Votes: 0

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. Votes: 0

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed. Votes: 0

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. Votes: 0

Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. Votes: 0

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life. Votes: 0

In higher samadhi, in absence of any support, the consciousness is absorbed within itself in perfect awareness, clarity and peacefulness. Votes: 0

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it." Votes: 0

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. Votes: 0

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. Votes: 0

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that. Votes: 0

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse. Votes: 0

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. Votes: 0

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world. Votes: 0

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. Votes: 0

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing. Votes: 0

Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well. Votes: 0

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. Votes: 0

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. Votes: 0

Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again. Votes: 0

I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula. Votes: 0

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. Votes: 0

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. Votes: 0

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed. Votes: 0

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. Votes: 0

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. Votes: 0

As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater. Votes: 0

A selfie is a proof that either we are very lonely or too self absorbed to ask others to take our picture. Votes: 0

Living in process is being open to insight and encounter. Creativity is becoming intensively absorbed in the process and giving it form. Votes: 0

Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed. Votes: 0

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed. Votes: 0

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true. Votes: 0

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time. Votes: 0

Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion. Votes: 0

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Votes: 0

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand. Votes: 0

...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment. Votes: 0

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past. Votes: 0

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you. Votes: 0

Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs. Votes: 0

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. Votes: 0

You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over. Votes: 0

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over. Votes: 0

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. Votes: 0

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed. Votes: 0

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became. Votes: 0

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually. Votes: 0

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great. Votes: 0

I'd like to say I'm not self-absorbed compared to others, but that's hard to say since I'm far too self-absorbed to pry into others' self-absorption. Votes: 0

They stared into the distance as though they were being absorbed into an alternate space-time reality. Perhaps they were. But probably they already had been. Votes: 0

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. Votes: 0

It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for Votes: 0

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details. Votes: 0

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. Votes: 0

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it. Votes: 0

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair. Votes: 0

Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience. Votes: 0

Sleep is extremely important to me - I need to rest and recover in order for the training I do to be absorbed by my body Votes: 0

The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light. Votes: 0

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men. Votes: 0

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary. Votes: 0

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world. Votes: 0

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real. Votes: 0

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity. Votes: 0

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination. Votes: 0

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed. Votes: 0

It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed. Votes: 0

When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed. Votes: 0

I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs. Votes: 0

It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed. Votes: 0

Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly. Votes: 0

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing. Votes: 0

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore. Votes: 0

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president. Votes: 0

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. Votes: 0

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images. Votes: 0

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos. Votes: 0

But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang! Votes: 0

Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me in the worst possible way. Votes: 0

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed. Votes: 0

I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. Votes: 0

Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all. Votes: 0

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. Votes: 0

Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to shape our communal remembering. Votes: 0

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. Votes: 0

When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration. Votes: 0

When you chant "Aum" or any mantra, do so softly and gently. Extend the sound. Focus your awareness on the sound of the mantra and become absorbed in it. Votes: 0

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet. Votes: 0

Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it. Votes: 0

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did. Votes: 0

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all. Votes: 0

While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. Votes: 0

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. Votes: 0

If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away. Votes: 0

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function', one cog in a machine. Votes: 0

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. Votes: 0

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it. Votes: 0

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you. Votes: 0

Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming. Votes: 0

If you can accomplish any great task being absorbed in it and that too without any expectations, believe me, that one act of yours will make you a "historical person". Votes: 0

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention. Votes: 0

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself. Votes: 0

Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand. Votes: 0

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music. Votes: 0

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events. Votes: 0

For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself. Votes: 0

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened. Votes: 0

I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I've been so absorbed in the last few series that I'd sort of forgotten that it wasn't real. Votes: 0

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. Votes: 0

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal. Votes: 0

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power. Votes: 0

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. Votes: 0

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. Votes: 0

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. Votes: 0

For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur. Votes: 0

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be? Votes: 0

Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic. Votes: 0

...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government. Votes: 0

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up. Votes: 0

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back. Votes: 0

A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him. Votes: 0

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive. Votes: 0

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints. Votes: 0

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. Votes: 0

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind Votes: 0

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions. Votes: 0

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic like a self-absorbed ice queen. Votes: 0

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed. Votes: 0

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. Votes: 0

I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent. Votes: 0

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am. Votes: 0

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen. Votes: 0

Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained. Votes: 0

Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed. Votes: 0

Dealing with effects, as a job it's great, but with Mythbusters, the stuff we've seen, the stuff we've absorbed over the years, has just been fantastic, and I wouldn't change it for the world. Votes: 0

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. Votes: 0

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Votes: 0

Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital. Votes: 0

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements. Votes: 0

Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion Votes: 0

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you. Votes: 0

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed. Votes: 0

We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach ourselves from thought and become aware that there are things beyond thought. Votes: 0

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned. Votes: 0

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays. Votes: 0

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time. Votes: 0

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. Votes: 0

Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own. Votes: 0

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits Votes: 0

... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb. Votes: 0

We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed. Votes: 0

Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle... Votes: 0

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it. Votes: 0

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests. Votes: 0

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me. Votes: 0

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go. Votes: 0

Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me. Votes: 0

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in. Votes: 0

You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed. Votes: 0

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it. Votes: 0