Quotes About Overwhelm

The idea that you can ever reach a point where all your obligations are handled is a fantasy.

this feeling of losing control

break out in a sweat.

Worries, he'd learned, are like rabbits: they compound in the dark.

I live in fear that the deep waters through which I've passed will overwhelm me. —Mary Lincoln

There is so much to say. It is like shoving all the sand of the world into an hourglass. Or trying to get it out.

And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take it anymore. Until I cannot be like this one second longer. There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. For the first time, I can sense how fully agonizing staying will be.

How does fear become so powerful? We can't see it. We can't touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.

When you spend all your time firefighting, there's little time or energy left for planning.

Alert fatigue is the single biggest problem we have right now…We need to be more intelligent about our alerts or we'll all go insane.

Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent.

In your defence, it's been a long day and you've had a lot to drink.

In a place where you're so freaked out that you hold yourself supertight, because any splash of emotion could break the dam and you would fall to pieces.

Sometimes, when the power of your enemy is too great, the only thing you can do is contain it.

We've all got things to cry about. Don't you think I could drown the world with tears if I started on my own woes?

the huge machine of her misery.

What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Culture, with us, ends in headache.

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.