Quotes About Overwhelm

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

Computers make me totally blank out.

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

If it had been a great necessity, if it had been contingents of an army meeting to overwhelm the enemy by stealth, it might not have worked out so neatly. But fate it would seem is a perfect strategist and will work miracles of timing to assist our destruction.

To know dance is to understand life; it overwhelms you; it moves you. When you embrace it with all your entirety, worlds move beneath your feet

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.

The next two weeks pass in a whirlwind.

The noise made Kim want to cover her ears, reminding her, as it did, of diarhoettic excretion.

It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

I'm not going to try to deal with a murder case, menopause, and breast cancer at the same time.

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

When I turned 40 I thought, 'I have to really make sure I have time to myself,' because it's very overwhelming to be taking care of so many people.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

But it was not so much the fresh air that she needed as a few minutes of solitude, a few minutes in which to collect herself. She stood to the side of one open doorway, half hidden by the heavy velvet drapery, and felt a raw ache at the back of her throat. She wanted to cry, she realized. For all the great popularity and success the evening was bringing her she felt a terrible loneliness.

Finally, the slick mountains of love break over us.

When a person is in emotional pain, it's hard to be rational and to think of a good solution. Nevertheless, many of the coping strategies used by people with overwhelming emotions only serve to make their problems worse.

People who struggle with overwhelming emotions often feel vulnerable. At any point, the smallest trigger can lead to a tidal wave of emotions that leaves them feeling confused, angry, alone, hopeless, and in pain.