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Quotes About Overwhelm

He tells me that smart houses are coming, that soon everything in our lives will be hooked up to the internet of things, blah, blah, blah, and we will be connected through social media to every other person in the world. He asks me what my favored platforms are. I explain that I don't use any of them because they make me feel too squirrelly. Or not exactly squirrelly, more like a rat who can't stop pushing a lever. Pellet of affection! Pellet of rage! Please, please, my pretty!
~ Jenny Offill
Sometimes when people get to be too nice, you end up not thanking them, because you are completely tired of saying thank you. Then they become more and more hangdog and you want to thank them even less.
~ Jesse Ball
It is too dangerous for me to put these things into words. I am afraid they might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Elgyöngülök, egyszerre csak nem bírom tovább. Nem akarok már káromkodni, nincs értelme, szeretnék összeesni, és sohasem kelni fel többé.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The dark turns into madness. It rocks and rages. Dark things, darker than the night itself, rush upon us in great waves, over us and onwards.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
There is nothing he likes more than just hearing about it. I realize he does not know that a man cannot talk of such things; I would do it willingly, but it is too dangerous for me to put these things into words. I am afraid they might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them. What would become of us if everything that happens out there were quite clear to us?
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I realize he does not know that a man cannot talk of such things; I would do it willingly, but it is too dangerous for me to put these things into words. I am afraid they might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them. What would become of us if everything that happens out there were quite clear to us?
~ Erich Maria Remarque
You knew the fate of civilization was being decided fifteen thousand feet above your head in a world of sun, wind and sky . . . You knew it, but even so it was hard to take it in.
~ Erik Larson
Corbin wanted, quite simply, to die. He had wished for death many times over his long lifespan, but never as fervently as he did while Beth Adams rattled off breastfeeding statistics, her baby sucking industriously, mouth fully around the entire areola, as Sam was quick to point out, finger outlining the area in question. Corbin was speechless. -Corbin at Baby Boot Camp
~ Erin McCarthy
There had been too much emotion, too much damage, too much of everything.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When people realise how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Totul e o povar?.Oare ce nu m? împov?reaz??
~ Eugene Ionesco
Your hold on me is great. But the universe is greater, and what I need is greater still.
~ Eugene Ionesco
I contemplated the consequences of pushing myself, it put me into a state of panic that no degree of conscious knowledge could counter. The
~ Andrew Rowe
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
~ Andrew Solomon
Siento una opresión en el pecho y en el estómago, unas terribles ganas de llorar que he estado dominando hasta hoy. No quería que los demás pensaran que no le agradezco a Dios mi suerte. Pero ese nudo que me crece por dentro y me ahoga, estalló esta mañana, cuando ya no podía más.
~ Ángeles Caso
Sometimes we need help to not drown in a glass of water.
~ Angie Cruz
No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
~ Anne Lamott
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
~ Kate Bosworth
I felt lost in endless spools of social media. All the while, emails by the thousands were piling up, phone calls were getting lost in the mix, and messages from the most important people in my life were getting drowned out in the din. I was more responsive to comments on Instagram than to my own closest friends and family.
~ Kelly Evans
Everything happened relatively quickly in our rise to the top. But we were like robots. We were told what to do and we just did it. We didn't have time to look inside ourselves. It was all just a constant whirlwind.
~ Gina Schock
Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.
~ Stephen Chow
Success can be a very difficult thing to deal with.
~ Christian Slater
It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent.
~ John Dykstra