Absorbed Quotes

374 quotes by 325 authors

He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with… — W. Somerset Maugham
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was… — W. Somerset Maugham
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… — David Sheff
...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured… — James Agee
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… — Winston Churchill
He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures.… — Rex Stout
Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam… — Pablo Neruda
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered… — Wilkie Collins
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. — Stephen Schwartz
One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get… — Kanye West
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous… — Vladimir Nabokov
I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber… — Fernando Pessoa
I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse. — Becca Fitzpatrick
A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves,… — Irvin D. Yalom
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,… — Sarah Waters
My life isnâ€™t theories and formulae. Itâ€™s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and Iâ€™ve absorbed what logic… — Audrey Hepburn
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark....… — Andrew Carnegie
I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already… — Reif Larsen

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