Quotes About Overwhelm

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.

He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.

Once you get a storm started, it's mighty hard to slow it back down again.

The touch of kindness in this frightening place was enough to push someone over the edge into tears.

From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

It cannot rain but it pours." —JONATHAN SWIFT Oh

When in problem, or in doubt, run in cirles, scream and shout

It occurred to Liz one day, as she waited on hold for an estimate from a yard service, that her parents' home was like an extremely obese person who could no longer see, touch, or maintain jurisdiction over all of his body; there was simply too much of it, and he—they—had grown weary and inflexible. During

It's like there's this wave coming toward me, but there's nothing I can do about it. And then it reaches me, crashes over me and...and I'm done for another day. I just give up. Give in to it. Because how do you stop a wave? You don't. And you're wise to recognize your powerlessness to do so. But what you can do is learn how to negotiate this wave. Work within the context of its inevitability.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

as well as in our own thoughts—the way one realization will suddenly overwhelm everything else, to be, in turn, replaced by yet another.

Flows of shit» , muttered Bat, «I'd go insane, listening to that all day. It's just a river of 'Hey, this crazy, disgusting thing just happened, and hey, here's another one, and another, and another, has your brain caught fire yet?' It's like disaster porn or something.

It's been so long, i'm afraid to get laid now! I got so much internal pressure built up that i'd probably blow a hole in a woman the size of my fist!

Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown? Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia? Lucy: The fear of Everything. Charlie: THAT'S IT!!!

It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.

Advertisements at 1 a.m. are nauseating.

So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.

daily bombardment of idiocy

There ought to be a name for the kind of overwhelm that happens when you realise there are too many things to fight. If it's not environment, then it's human rights. If it's not human rights, it's women's rights. Law and order. Gun control. Invasive species. Water pollution. Tax reform. Refugee policy. Education. Health care. The list is endless.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

I can compare sadness to a car because both are quite capable of running me over.