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Quotes About Overwhelming

The dead were too ...present.
~ Chris Bohjalian
This whole thing of motherhood is insane.
~ Katie Lowes
Pain was greedy; it demanded all of her attention.
~ Toni Morrison
That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.
~ Kentaro Miura
The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.
~ Kevin Brooks
He ground his teeth together, the torture of it almost more than he could bear. The urge to pull her to him was overwhelming, but to do that would cost him dearly, for no doubt she would run out the door, damning him with every step. This was Lorelei, the artist, and she didn't see him as a man. Right now, he was about as human as the ridiculous fruit she'd painted in the past. And if he played along with her wants, perhaps she'd let him show her his...banana.
~ Kinley MacGregor
Fear, Leni learned, was not the small dark closet she'd always imagined; walls pressed in close, a ceiling you bumped your head on, a floor cold to the touch. No. Fear was a mansion, one room after another, connected by endless hallways.
~ Kristin Hannah
Debt is a bottomless sea.
~ Carlyle
Your needs are overwhelming? You can't depend on yourself or others to meet them? You don't even know what they are? Then need nothing.
~ Caroline Knapp
The emotions roused by that most unavoidable of things, food, are astonishing.
~ Caryll Houselander
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done ..., whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
How can something so . . . huge happen so fast?
~ J.R. Ward
Oh, man, he was colossal. If her apartment was small to begin with, he turned it into a shoe box. And all that black leather just seemed to make him bigger. He had to be six-feet-six, two seventy-five at least.
~ J.R. Ward
There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
~ Zooey Deschanel
The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.
~ Vik Muniz
You've got to realize, I've been stabbed three times; I'm not too used to this kind of love from people. It has been unbelievable the amount of support I've gotten. I'm getting letters, packages, e-mails, and phone calls from so many people. It's just overwhelming.
~ Roddy Piper
Walking out in front of 80,000 spectators was unbelievable.
~ Owen Farrell
And just seeing yourself on buses and billboards in even the smallest town of any country in the world, it's overwhelming sometimes and it's amazing and it's unbelievable.
~ Natalia Reyes
And everything with you is always so, I don't know, fucking heavy.
~ T. Greenwood
Everyone in the world knows 'Spider-Man.' And to be accepted into such a large franchise was overwhelming.
~ Chris Zylka
There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.
~ Christopher Lloyd
A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.
~ Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere.
~ Neal Stephenson
It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.
~ Neal Stephenson