Quotes About Absorption

I love you sometimes foolishly and at these moments I do not understand that I could not, would not, and should not be so absorbing a thought for you as you are for me...

Une signature finit toujours par muter, elle absorbe la personnalité de l'auteur, elle se penche, elle se déforme, elle se contracte.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under.

I love to lose myself for a while.

Der verschlingener des Lebens'—'The Devourer

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

If it had writing, I read it: cereal boxes, ads on the subway, billboards, highway signs. I

Please also feel free to read this case a few times as it may take a while to sink in.

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

For her PhD, Maria Goeppert Mayer, a theoretical physicist, came up with the idea of multi-photon physics. That means an atom absorbs two or more photons simultaneously.

When they say 'action,' I am into it completely and forget everything around. When they say 'cut,' I am back to myself.

England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.

What I read, I read thoroughly and retain almost all of it.

A good book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Please excuse this slow-witted talabeh, who will have to read the text and the margins several times to make sure he gets today's lesson right.

Eu leio antropofagicamente: quero devorar aquele que escreveu

Malcolm believed, by the way, in Student Power: not only did he feel that the college-educated black, if he could retain (as he must) his sense of reality and history, and refrain from being absorbed into the white world by its material enticements, was obviously better equipped to cope with the problems besetting his people in America, but he also believed, or hoped, that the white college student was more receptive to change than were his parents.

Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.

You are the sun in reverse, all energy flows into you and is abolished

A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness.