All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in…

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

— Daniel Tammet

I was too absorbed to be responsive

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Your craft needs not just your effort to thrive, but the entirety of your heart.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail…

— Jay Rayner

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

— Milton Avery

“It was life itself that was to be her further school, and she was absorbed in its class.”

— Stuart Shotwell

“I soaked up the drink and it, in return, absorbed me.”

— Martin Pond

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

— Mia Wasikowska

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on…

— John Dewey

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter,…

— Gerald Lawson Sittser

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her…

— Edward Thomas

“And I—the girl growing in their midst, being made in their image—I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my…

— Vivian Gornick

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

— Kim Edwards

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

— Andrew Young

I try not to get too self-absorbed.

— Paolo Nutini