Quotes About Overwhelm

so many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede...

Probably my worst habit is, when I get really stressed out, down to the wire, and Im trying to find clothes or find something, literally anything, I throw everything everywhere, and I dont pick it up because Im in that anxious space, still.

No one wants to have 300 channels on your wireless device.

Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done.

If we break faith with thee, may the green earth gape and swallow us, may the grey seas break in and overwhelm us, may the sky of stars fall and crush us out of life for ever.

For most of us, though, the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately.

Sometimes what comes, simply comes, too fast to anticipate, or counter with prudence. The deluge just appears, on occasion, be it weather, or life.

She could crowd a thousand thoughts into her head, but it was, at that moment like a strainer -- the more she tried to fill up every little corner, the more emptiness there was.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it, it went over you and you came out flat.

One by one I could handle them, but if they combined into a mob of three I would have trouble. Divide and conquer would be my motto.

The tide of human desire, the desire for more and better, would overwhelm them. It would take control and drive events, as it had in every large change throughout history.

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed. There's a lot that doesn't bear thinking about.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

I don't do well with technology.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.