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Quotes About Overwhelm

Any time your head explodes, that's not a good situation.
~ Tom Arnold
There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them
~ Marc Andreessen
Oh, the loneliness, the loneliness. It lived inside her now like an illness, like a flu that could be ignored and then would suddenly overtake and overwhelm her.
~ Anna Quindlen
It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.
~ Anne Frank
Sigur, eu sunt un clovn amuzant pentru o dup?-amiaz?, dup? care toÈ›i se satur? de mine pentru o lun? întreag?.
~ Anne Frank
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
~ Anne Lamott
I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I give up. Come and get me.
~ Anne Lamott
Getting all your addictions under control is like trying to put an octopus to bed
~ Anne Lamott
The interrelatedness of the world links us constantly with more people than our heart can hold. Or rather, for I believe the heart is infinite, modern communication loads us with more problems than the human frame can carry.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
the truth the less able you were to cope with it when it finally broke through all the barriers, like a dammed river, and carried away the careful structure of your life with it.
~ Anne Perry
Lestat was holding me by the shoulders. I could barely stand. In fact, if he had let me go I would have fallen. I couldn't take my eyes off the pink-throated lillies.
~ Anne Rice
Sometimes, after an especially trying day, she felt an urge to burn everything she had worn.
~ Anne Tyler
The world always had more details than you could remember, more than you could even see, and a thousand times more than you could ever write down. You were always deleting and forgetting far more than you could express in words.
~ Scott Westerfeld
The physical shock took away the pain of being.
~ Sebastian Faulks
The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Find a position on the map where you, and you alone, are the perfect answer. Overwhelm this group's wants and dreams and desires with your care, your attention, and your focus. Make change happen. Change that's so profound
~ Seth Godin
frantically
~ Seth Godin
Time to get off the social media merry-go-round that goes faster and faster but never gets anywhere.
~ Seth Godin
Earthquake report: Call the paramedics. A girl in fifth grade is about to explode.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Stealth Meditation If you start to feel overwhelmed, take a quick, centering moment—as short as following three breaths—to connect with a deeper sense of yourself.
~ Sharon Salzberg
You couldn't handle being me." She swirled her forefingers around her head and admitted, "All that goes on inside this head at any given time…would destroy you.
~ Shelly Laurenston
The world is too fucking big. Sometimes, I can't even carry myself through all the love and fear.
~ Sherman Alexie
Damn, I need eye bleach.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon