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Quotes About Overwhelm

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
~ Clive Barker
Like the best storms, rush hour starts out as a slight drizzle, then becomes unholy deluge.
~ Colson Whitehead
And then the shower fell, sudden, profuse. No one had seen the cloud coming. There it was, black, swollen, on top of them. Down it poured like all the people in the world weeping. Tears. Tears. Tears.
~ Virginia Woolf
We are most often stressed when we can't take control of events which affect our lives.
~ lanoil georgia
Jesus, could he take up any more space?
~ Lara Adrian
You think that's enough? Do you know how many episode of Jersey Shore you can watch before you want to gouge your own eyes? i do, and it's probably a lot fewer than you guess.
~ Larissa Ione
they had more shit on tv than you could believe now.
~ Larry Brown
teeming with inebriated ants. In
~ Laura Hillenbrand
It's The Addie Show all over again. Every channel, every network.
~ Lauren Myracle
How suffocating to be so loved
~ Celeste Ng
If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.
~ Charles Boyle
Body can't contain the inside hurricane. (Corps ne peut contenir L'ouragan intérieur)
~ Charles de Leusse
Oh, yes, his family is all very fine, Miss Summerson," replied Miss Jellyby; "but what comfort is his family to him? His family is nothing but bills, dirt, waste, noise, tumbles downstairs, confusion, and wretchedness. His scrambling home, from week's end to week's end, is like one great washing-day — only nothing's washed!
~ Charles Dickens
What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feeling that there were a knife and fork too many, and that mine; an appetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, and those mine; a somebody too many, and that I!
~ Charles Dickens
He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.
~ Charles Dickens
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if any thing is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't feel guilty about saying no to the nonessentials in life! — simplicity is saying yes to joy by saying no to overmuch overwhelm overdoing overhaving overbeing
~ Terri Guillemets
Some events in life are so overwhelming that people will experience stress no matter how good they are at controlling their minds in normal circumstances.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
He is not there but You know you are tasting together The winter, or a light spring weather. His hand to take your hand is overmuch. Too much too bear.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
We have information fatigue, anxiety, and glut. We
~ James Gleick
too much info, keeping up), breakdowns and frustrations in the school systems, taxpaying, bureaucracy, hospitals, and making ends meet. You see, Michael, at last therapy is going to have to go out the door with the client, maybe even make home visits, or at least walk down the street. Jim
~ James Hillman
Answer me this, "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I get so damn lonely and sad and filled with regrets some days that it overwhelms me. But I won't give up! I'll continue to move forward because I believe!
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Of course you have stress. The weight of carrying it can break you." Realize that sometimes, the best thing to do, is to Express your feelings, when stress is getting on top of you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)