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Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian McEwan

We are so engrossed with the objects,
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light. — Ramana Maharshi

Love. You can only be broken without it. — Karen Marie Moning

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange. — Anne Frank

When I get lost in a book, I forget about all my problems because I'm so engrossed in the character's lives. — Kaitlyn Hoyt

She was engrossed in the first chapter of The Absentee when she heard her abigail clearing her throat for the second time. — Ruth Axtell

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by. — Jeffrey Eugenides

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession. — Kate Forsyth

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play. — Charles E. Schaefer

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' — Michael Gove

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good. — Josef Pieper

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity. — John Gresham Machen

Are non-readers totally clueless about how obnoxious it is to be engrossed in your book only to find someone suddenly talking to you? — Stephanie Morrill

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching. — Frederick Lenz

To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass. — Anne Lamott

Don't be too engrossed with things of the world; discover your purpose in life — Sunday Adelaja

When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession. — David Burge

I look all right. I look like myself. — Lena Dunham

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Let my words
be as clear as glass,
a window to my soul. — Sarah Wagstaff

The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time. — U.G. Krishnamurti

I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them! — Samuel Colbran

The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre. — Frederick Lenz

Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive. — Dada Bhagwan

Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end. — Cyril Connolly

Well, from now on, she would never complain when he got so engrossed in his laptop that he failed to hear anything that she was saying. — Jessica Park

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking. — Eckhart Tolle

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. — Jane Gardam

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

A woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society. — M. Carey Thomas

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail. — Ann Coulter

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me. — Andie MacDowell

With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so engrossed in it. — Atticus Ross

A rib ... loaves and fish ... some spit ... God can do a lot with a little. — Mark Hart

When I am engrossed in an idea, all else is mere diversion. — Leo Tolstoy

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them. — Dada Bhagwan

I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book. — Garrison Keillor

Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act. — Stephen Covey

You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment — Rex Stout

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake. — Benito Mussolini

I am a guy," I say.
"And I hate boys," she says.
"But a guy's different," I say.
"Maybe a little," she says. — Ned Vizzini

I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good. — Charlotte Bronte