Quotes About Overwhelm

There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it.

I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

I've got more soul than I can control.

Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the off button is.

I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it's really only something you can do for a few years. After a while, it's a bit too much.

I'd been working on new Slipknot material since the end of the 'All Hope Is Gone' tour cycle, but I ended up with so much stuff, I had to take a step back and stop working on it.

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.

I forget to take care of Angie being so busy taking care of everyone else.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

Even more insidious are the ways we are bombarded by the broad distractions of constant noise, constant demands, constant news.

This fire is a big deal. A huge deal. A giant, flaming, goddamn, piece-of-shit, agonizing, I-want-to-rip-my-own-head-off deal.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

I guess I just had trouble shaking that feeling that I had to take care of everything because no one else could do it right.

Love for her threatened to overwhelm me. I set down all my bags and drew her into my arms. That silly mug suddenly took on monumental significance, and looking down at her, at the face I loved so much, I could see the future she described, a future together where we could accomplish anything.

Umbrellas made vain attempts to withhold the deluge;

because having too many options can easily lead to being stuck, disconnected from your life because there's no pressing need to do anything.

Far too often, we don't start because we can't get our minds around the entire thing. We don't take the first step because we can't figure out the seventeenth step.

We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

Being overwhelmed by something other than one's true self. This is weakness and incompetence in a man.

Like marijuana, a Wellesian long shot creates an information overload and provokes you to enlarge your reality-tunnel to accommodate it.

I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them—those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can never focus enough to learn.

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.