Quotes About Absorption

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

Get interested in something! Absolutely enthralled in something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

We have always absorbed our own disintegration.

He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in front of him and his chin on his forearms and he watched the play with great intensity. He'd notion that there would be something in the story itself to tell him about the way the world was or was becoming but there was not. There was nothing in it at all.

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.

Manche Bücher müssen gekostet werden, manche verschlingt man, nur einige wenige kaut man und verdaut sie ganz.

Some books you read, some you enjoy, but some books just swallow you up, heart and soul..

Some books should be tasted some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

How this darkness soaks me through and through

Her absorption was strange, almost rhapsodic. Both Birkin and Ursula were suspended. The little red pistillate flowers had some strange, almost mystic-passionate attraction for her.

In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.

Consider to what extent an "antique" is prized because it is excellently made and beautiful and to what extent it is prized because it is an antique and as such is saturated with another time and another place and is therefore resistant to absorption by the self—

There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became...

the old name absorbs into me—MANNAHATTA, the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.

Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does.

Mások dicsérhetik, ami jólesik nekik; De én, a rohanó Missouri partjairól semmit sem dicsérek a m?vészetben vagy bármi másban, Amíg az nem szívta magába jól e folyó levegÅ'jét, a nyugati préri-illatot, És amíg mindezt ki nem leheli ismét.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, / And accrue what I hear into myself....and let sounds contribute / toward me.

The late distinguished sociologist Robert Nisbet, following Tocqueville, argued that when the forces of personal liberation are dominant in a culture, the result is not maximal liberty, but the absorption of liberty by government.

you know how sometimes you walk outside, like out of a cold room, and the sun is coming up and it feels warm on your face? And all you want to do is stand there and soak it up? Well, that's kind of how I feel. I want to stand here and soak in this a while.