Quotes About Overwhelm

Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms.

As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.

If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Though We alarm them, yet it only increases their tremendous excess.

My first experience playing for England was very scary and nerve wracking.

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

My nerves sometimes hijack my body and I am no longer in the driver's seat.

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.

Bad thing upon bad thing upon bad thing until you can't take anymore, and then it's off to the nearest multistory car park in the family hatchback with a length of rubber tubing. Surely that's fair enough? Surely the coroner's report should read, He took his own life after sober and careful contemplation of the fucking shambles it had become.

the sum of her depression was much greater than its parts

You're going to blow his socks off!

You're the most elegant steamroller I've ever been flattened by.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

Stendhal syndrome, Angel says, is a medical term. It's when a painting, or any form of art, is so beautiful it overwhelms the viewer. It's a form of shock. When Stendhal toured the Church of Santa Croce in Florence in 1817, he reported almost fainting from joy. People feel rapid heart palpitations. They get dizzy. Looking at great art makes you forget your own name, forget even where you're at. It can bring on depression and physical exhaustion. Amnesia. Panic. Heart attack. Collapse.

Podrías ahogarte con tanto silencio.

Emotionally she's a garage full of cats on fire.

Control lost.

I opened both eyes. Dread was sitting on my chest as if it were an animal. I mean, dread so real it had physical presence, like a Labrador retriever I could teach tricks to. Here, Dread. Sit, Dread. Roll over, Dread. Play dead, Dread.

It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.

Coping with the relentless onslaught of technology change was akin to trying to climb a mudslide raging down a hill. You have to scramble with everything you've got to stay on top of it, and if you ever once stop to catch your breath, you get buried.