Quotes About Overwhelm

Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

When burdened by the feeling that there are too many photographs in the world, I ask myself if there are too many flowers.

Es gibt zuviel Welt, dachte er. Und suchte nach einer Lösung.

Drinking was what you did when things were so overwhelmingly good you needed a hangover to tamp them down, or when things were so overwhelmingly bad you needed to forget.

Sometimes, it's difficult to know if it's your own feelings or someone else's. Indigos also feel bombarded with painfully negative energy whenever a world tragedy occurs. Whether it's shock, anger, or sadness over the event, the Indigo feels it deeply. Not only do Indigos feel all of these energies

What fresh hell is this?

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

When a stampeding herd of cattle were coming your way, it didn't much matter what had caused the stampede. You only had to know that no argument would alter its course, no persuasion would save your life if you were standing in its path. Recinos

We could all work up a nervous breakdown in thirty seconds, if we really wanted to.

And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!

Its been one of those days, you try and forget about. Take a shot and let it out.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

Todos estão loucos, neste mundo? Porque a cabeça da gente é uma só, e as coisas que há e as que estão para haver são demais de muitas, muito maiores diferentes, e a gente tem de necessitar de aumentar a cabeça, para o total.

Parents just concentrate on the thing that drives them nuts and all the other good stuff you do goes out the window.

Run! my brain screamed, but my feet didn't move. Seriously. No movement at all, just like in one of those dreams where a giant dinosaur suddenly appears in the grocery store parking lot and you can't seem to start running away or even throw a package of chicken thighs to create a diversion, no matter how hard you try.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

This party is turning out to be the turd-encrusted cherry on the top of my shit-shake of a day.