Quotes About Overwhelm

Sometimes the changes in life came at you so fast, and with such fury, there was no way to keep up with reality.

See, this is how people get paralyzed. They stuff and stuff and stuff, and the triggers keep coming and the layers continue to build until the load becomes too heavy, and they fold.

Christ, it was like putting your face in a chum bucket and inhaling like the world were about to run out of oxygen.

It was a multi-f-bomb kind of night.

It's not that I can't fall in love. It's really that I can't help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can't distinguish between what's platonic and what isn't, because it's all too much and not enough at the same time.

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

There´s so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraint and all hung-up on like literally inhibitions and gramatical fears...

I always say that characters must drive plots, never the reverse. Writing about large-scale events creates the risk that the scope of the events themselves can overwhelm the characters. I emphatically do not want that. That was the only trepidation I felt when I started 'The Twilight War.'

I don't check Twitter as much or tweet as often because, honestly, sometimes social media is draining and brings out all of the negative things going on.

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

God, they'd barely begun and she didn't know how much more she could stand before the lust-drunk cells in her body rocketed over the edge. Starting

It feels like someone's using a tennis ball machine to fire starving pug dogs at you.

we're seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime. And the result is that beauty is slowly ruining our lives.

That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.

If you're making a bunch of little decisions - like, do I read this email now or later? Do I file it? Do I forward it? Do I have to get more information? Do I put it in the spam folder? - that's a handful of decisions right there, and you haven't done anything meaningful. It puts us into a brain state of decision fatigue.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff; more.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.

At the time of 'Neither Fish Nor Flesh's non-performance in the marketplace - I believe that's the expression - every single thing hit me at once. Legal situations, financial situations, the mother of my daughter and I were splitting up, everything.