Quotes About Overwhelm

Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.

Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.

It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember something that I studied the night before. All it did was trigger my anxiety, and all of sudden everything would snowball on me.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Donald Trump is like a practical joke that got out of hand.

Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

The panic that had filled him was subsiding, perhaps having burned itself out.

Planning to reach this point was one thing; having now reached it was another. He hadn't considered how he'd feel. Justice got in the way of that, a white fire he'd had no reason to look behind, or push aside. Justice had seduced him and he wondered what he had just lost, he wondered at the death he felt spreading within him. The regret following in that death's wake, so unanswerable it was, threatened to overwhelm him.

La vague de Tenescowris, masse humaine devenue folle de faim, se fracassa inexorablement contre les murailles de la ville, puis les submergea. Les barricades élevées à l'emplacement des portes, ployant sous la pression, finirent par céder.

towering loads

My partner had made perhaps ten strokes before the sap rose within him and he fell upon my back, smothering me like a collapsing building.

We rarely have guests, so when we do, we tend to smother them.

I gulped air, so disoriented that I tried to swallow it, like food.

I remember I had a low point when I was working on a soap opera, 'General Hospital,' five years ago. It was my first real job, and it was so overwhelming. You would work five days a week and have to learn sometimes up to 30 pages of new dialogue a night, then have one take to shoot it all, the next day.

Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.

Social media overwhelms me.

This whole social media scene makes me sick.

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.

You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.

Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.

My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on.

You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.

Sometimes you just want to hug someone and drown.