Quotes About Overwhelm

I have so many things going on in my life that my mind is always in other places.

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

Eso fue amor, y me golpeó tan fuerte que me apoyé contra la pantalla de la puerta que seguía de pie entre nosotros, sólo para permanecer vertical.

overload. Too much, too much, too much! Why were there so many alternatives? So many different outcomes to be considered?

Arousing him, all gods blast it, despite his anger and worry. Arclath shook his head, managing to free his mouth from hers at last. "Dragon take all!" he gasped. "Will

We're all busy, all the time.' He's raising his voice. 'People think it's all [A.I.'d] now and I sit in my workspace all day reading books and jerking off but it all just makes more work. Everything that was meant to lighten the load makes more work, it just makes more shit for you to deal with.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

Life in the fast laneSurely make you lose your mind.

Without habit, the beauty of the world would overwhelm us. We'd pass out every time we saw— actually saw— a flower. Imagine if we only got to see a cumulonimbus cloud or Cassiopeia or a snowfall once a century: there'd be pandemonium in the streets. People would lie by the thousands in the fields on their backs.

The mind craves ease; it encourages the senses to recognize symbols, to gloss. It makes maps of our kitchen drawers and neighborhood streets; it fashions a sort of algebra out of life. And this is useful, even essential - X is the route to work, Y is the heft and feel of a nickel between your fingers. Without habit, the beauty of the world would overwhelm us. We'd pass out every time we saw - actually saw - a flower.

A way for a small thing to destroy a much larger thing.

One day, he knew, he would have had enough. He wouldn't be able to control himself any more. And then what? He had no idea.

There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into a conference center filled with books - and people buying them or not buying them, being interested or not interested in them - that's just overwhelming to me now.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

That's your problem, isn't it, Madigan? Too much feeling.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

Mohiam had been fond of explaining this particular error to her student, Jessica. "If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it." "And even I, your student, have made it," Jessica whispered to herself.