Quotes About Overwhelm

discovered that some of our efforts can actually drown out the good news and become stumbling blocks to faith.

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. •

THTL— too hot to live

When you're a new mother, you're just in a fog of hormones and exhaustion most of the time.

A department store two days before Christmas Eve is like a city in a state of siege....

At times she could barely speak in response to the rabbi's questions. Other times she could hardly find enough breath for all the words she needed to utter, though the rabbi listened with great patience. On those days the new thoughts so brimmed in her that she felt the white plaster ceiling and the timbers and the brickwork walls couldn't contain her—should she raise her head to speak once more, she'd shake the house down.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

The excessive passion of your yearning could blind you to the mistakes you made, so that in the end, you were defeated by the sheer power of your need.

And I want only to throw myself into it and be consumed.

The pressure of events was increasing, day by day, and he could feel responsibility wrapped like a strangling vine about his spinal cord, reaching eager fingers into the base of his skull.

It doesna matter how many things ye do on a farm, there's always more than ye can do. A wonder the place doesna rise up about my ears and swallow me, like Jonah and the whale.

It was like being caught in a meat grinder; a brief moment of total chaos, punctuated by random hard blows to the body and the sensation of being suffocated in a large, reeking hairy blanket.

I'm going out there and dominating people from start to finish.

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

We are drowning in information.

There's a lot of dynamics that can really break a human down.

My email is constantly full, and I'm constantly being called, like, 'We need your decision on this.'

When you get hate online, it seems like the end of the world.

My inbox is the enemy.

For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.

He covers his eyes, as if pursued by the sight of billions of pages, lines, words, whirling in a dust storm.

Il mondo è così complicato, aggrovigliato e sovraccarico che per vederci un po' chiaro è necessario sfoltire, sfoltire.