Quotes About Overwhelm

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps too much ice cream…

Everything wanting to contribute to my ulcer, Get in line and take a number!

It was as if a boa constrictor had wrapped itself around my torso and was squeezing me into the shape of a meal.

Attack of the Kitchen Appliances!

I couldn't stop the overwhelming sadness I felt. It ate at me, like acid splashed all over my body.

and almost overdosed on icy-cold cans of soda.

That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.

the woman is rain, and when she falls, she is a monsoon.to love her is to drown.

He needed a stiff drink. With a side of straightjacket.

You're never quite prepared for the inundation of stardom, or whatever you want to call it.

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

If you've ever experienced being in an Indian train station as the train pulls in, even as a six-foot adult, it's incredibly scary. You just have people storming at you, bumping around you, without any regard to your safety.

The constant ability to see into the lives of our neighbors, to compare ourselves to strangers, to be in constant contact with the entire planet day and night, is unnatural and pushes the human mind far beyond its capacity for reason and reflection.

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

But even blessed and intelligent families lose it when their emotional problems overwhelm them. For our families it appeared to be alcoholism that led to relationship trauma … or was unhealed relationship trauma the prequel that led to using alcohol to self-medicate emotional pain?

I'm going to keep it real gully with you; the first two months, I wanted to give him back. I expected someone to come and save me because after you have the baby, nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody cares if you sleep, nobody cares if you eat. It's just you and this all-consuming thingy!

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

There were times when I just couldn't be around noise, and people talking in the same room would have been too much for me.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

I was fully burnt out - and in some ways I think that was good, because I was just fully numb.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

People get obsessive and nuts. It's scary.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.