Quotes About Overwhelm

It is true for everyone, even infants. They hate to feel bored or overwhelmed.

But many HSPs avoid people who come in the overstimulating packages—the strangers, the big parties, the crowds. For

I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.

I had the impression that, although I was absorbing much of that sight, many things, too many, were scattering around me without letting me grasp them.

lo que le pasa a las personas: llevamos dentro demasiadas cosas y eso nos hincha, nos rompe.

We have too much stuff inside and it swells us, breaks us.

Você entende, Lenu, o que acontece com as pessoas: a gente tem coisa demais por dentro, e isso nos incha, nos arrebenta.

Ah, compañeros, otra cosa quiero decirles: aquí uno se desespera de tanto papeleo, de tanto oficio, de tanto que se tienen que levantar actas burocráticas. Papel y papel. Mire ahora: ¡ya todos los papeles volaron por los aires! El terremoto todo lo alevantó. (Alonso Mixteco)

Erica tem receio que tudo fique como está e tem receio que algo se possa vir a alterar. Luta violentamente para conseguir respirar, uma espécie de ataque de asma, e depois não sabe que fazer com tanto ar.

There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.

This idea was carried forward by the British philosopher C.D. Broad who wrote: The function of the brain and the nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and otherwise irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive.

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.

Gerardo; People can die from an excessive dose of the truth, you know.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

Technology is just so fast. As convenient as it is, it's stressing a lot of us out. It's just too much, too quick. And I'm interested in that conversation.

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

My mind is always racing.

All my friends with babies or husbands or full time jobs are running ragged looking after everyone and everything around them, but not themselves.

I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, 'I didn't order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you're doing today. It's time to take a sad shower.'

Wie unvermögend ist doch der gutwilligste Fleiß der Menschen gegen die Allmacht der ungeteilten Begeisterung!

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