Quotes About Absorption

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

Heather cocks her head to one side as if she's trying to make the information roll down a hill in her mind and come to rest in a place she can access it.

The space we stood around had been emptied into us to keep

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.

When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

Whenever I do something I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

She kept watching the words.

One does not simply read books... one climbs inside them and lives there.

Zašto me tako ?udno umirivao pogled na njega?

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

Only through the pure contemplation . . . which becomes absorbed entirely in the object, are the Ideas comprehended; and the nature of genius consists precisely in the pre-eminent ability for such contemplation. . . . (T)his demands a complete forgetting of our own person.

The Mouse absorbed love like sand absorbs the sea.

Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.

It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.

I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

We derive the greatest pleasure and fulfillment when all our faculties are drawn together into our life's work. In this state of absorption, we experience extraordinary satisfaction. We human beings are attracted to the experience of intense involvement. The outcome of this involvement, says Hokusai, is sublime. "By ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature." Hokusai's lesson, finally, is that a life of passion for dharma is a fulfilled

he had read and absorbed more than he could understand, so he lived by pastiche and pretence.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.