Quotes About Overwhelm

di interi giorni, non serbo che il ricordo di un'irritata frenesia. Avevo perso ogni senso, ogni rispetto; credevo la mia vita una tragedia mal recitata e perciò avevo urgenza di dimenticare.

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

There is more than one good way to drown.

I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm.

If I had to strain my brain with any more of that stuff I would go mad.

I am not ready for anything to happen. I should have murdered this, that murders me.

I stepped on as many feet as I could because it took my mind off this enormous desire to puke that was ballooning up in front of me so fast I couldn't see round it.

After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture-chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and on all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces.

I could feel the tears start to spurt from the screwed-up nozzles of my eyes.

I feel sick, this week, of having written nothing lately. The Novel got to be such a big idea, I got panicked.

vertiginous wall, looking back to the big cylinder

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

You know how when you're cleaning out a closet, the mess reaches a point where it's even greater than when you started? We're at that point in the history of autism now.

I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?

You're running out of tomorrows." Running out of tomorrows, I repeated to myself in my room, sprawling across my bed to begin another midnight marathon of homework. Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.

I'm getting close to ubiquity, and going crazy is just one step away

It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.

Knocked the architecture right out of his legs.

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

Pan cierpi, bo Pan za du?o od siebie wymaga. I od innych. Stanowczo za du?o.

The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

Boleslao no lo sabe, pero lo que le pasa es que no cree en la vida cumulativa. Siempre ha temido ser devorado por la vida, esa cosa de mil bocas y mil cabezas.