Quotes About Overwhelm

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.

La manera más eficaz de sacar a alguien de tu vida es echártelo encima. Cargarlo todo el tiempo, para que hasta cuando sonría te parezca insoportable.

if he lost his way in a moment of collective hysteria, that's because the horrors of everyday life are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm all defenses, and human degeneracy is deeper than any abyss.

existential overload

Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said--

It was like being punched in the face and the stomach at the same time

He said that more businesses die from indigestion than starvation. I have observed the truth of that advice many times since then.

Feelings sometimes grow too big to be kept within walls.

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I was thinking..." "We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

You'll know you've officially become sleep deprived when you have the unique feeling of being drunk, high, and on a psychiatric hold all at the same time. Some

Her whole life is devouring her, slow second by slow second.

Sometimes you feel like you are on top of the world, and at other times it feels like the world is on top of you.

He knows a sweep of gratitude, soft as another voice, and so wide and deep he believes he might drown in it.

She doesn't have the reservoir of space to take anything else into her brain.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.

Considering all that competes for your time and attention, if you don't actively take steps to simplify your life and carve out what I call "breathing space," you will most certainly find yourself in a perpetual state of overwhelm.

Computers thwart, contort, and befuddle us. We mess around with fonts, change screen backgrounds, slow down or increase mouse speed. We tweak and we piddle. We spend countless hours preparing PowerPoint slides that most people forget in seconds. We generate reports in duplicate and triplicate and then somw that end up serving only one function for most of the recipients - to collect dust.

We've arrived at the point where technology and information come hurtling towards us.

Today, merely being born guarantees that you will face a never-ending stream of complexity within your home, on the highway, at work, and everywhere in between.

Gli occhi molto belli sono insostenibili, bisogna guardarli sempre, ci si affoga dentro, ci si perde, non si sa più dove si è

War is like night," she said. "It covers everything.