Immersed Quotes
161 Immersed quotes by 147 unique authors
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When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and…
— George Saunders
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'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.
— Anna Torv
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The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.
— Geoff Mulgan
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We are all thinking, willing, knowing,conscious centers of Life. We are surroundedby, immersed in, and there is flowing through us a creative something... call it…
— Ernest Holmes
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She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he…
— William Faulkner
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Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague,…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I,…
— Sarah Dessen
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Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not…
— John Edward Williams
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the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded…
— Harold Brodkey
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He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just…
— Paul Bowles
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The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
— Italo Calvino
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...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes…
— John Updike
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There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our…
— Thomas Merton
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But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting…
— Neal Stephenson
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She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation'…
— Gordon Korman
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Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outsideâ€â€”comes to me in those…
— Bell Hooks
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There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means…
— John Ortberg
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At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes,…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
Who Wrote These Immersed Quotes
147 authors contributed a total of 161 Immersed Quotes, led by these top contributors: