Quotes About Overwhelm

Soms gaan de gedachten zo razendsnel dat ik ze bijna niet meer kan denken, ze spoelen door mij heen en dan moet ik huilen. En dan opeens staat alles weer stil, verstard als op een toverlantarenplaatje en lijkt niets ooit meer van zijn plaats te kunnen komen en moet je weer gaan lopen om je omgeving op gang te krijgen. Zomaar lopen omdat je anders niet meer kunt voelen dat je ergens thuishoort, dat er tijd verstrijkt.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Computers make me totally blank out.

He was too busy checking out and checking in, making and breaking plans, buying and losing cell phones, playing computer games and pool, looking at stock quotes, and living the chaotic life that effectively took up all his energy and time.

expectations, rules, and requests for compliance often drives the best-intentioned parents over the edge.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting, and at the same time, we are all doing more. Consequently

We are doing the jobs of ten different people while still trying to keep up with our lives, our children and parents, our friends, our careers, our hobbies, and our favorite TV shows. It's no wonder that sometimes one memory gets confounded with another, leading us to show up in the right place but on the wrong day, or to forget something as simple as where we last put our glasses or the remote.

Si no podemos afrontar adecuadamente una situación que nos abruma, la elevación de los niveles de cortisol puede hacerse crónica.

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.

numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.

The first, stress, gets a stranglehold on us when we move through life feeling like everything (every decision, every answer, every provision, every protection) rests on our shoulders.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

Ge kunt soms gedachten hebben die niet te dragen zijn tusschen vier muurkens. Die zoo geweldig groot zijn dat ge aan uw deurken moet, of anders zou uw kop openklakken.

Ik wrong en wreef me opene muis tegen z'n geertig likkende mond aan en spoot meteen al me geil, dat hij zo lekker vond, uit me mossel weg. Het stroomde zo over z'n gelaat, een fontein van geil, waarvan hij dronk of het een whisky-pruimsap was. Ik verloor het bewustzijn erbij (...)

Everything's such an effort, even caring a little. Even being such a gigantic fuck-up wears me out.

What blinded us, he told Beauvoir, were the horrific acts. They threatened to overwhelm and obscure the decency. It was so easy to remember the cruelty because those left a wound, a scab that hid the rest. Hid the best. But those appalling acts, those appalling people, were the exception.

It would have blown the whole grid.

He needed to keep his fear at bay. A little was good. Kept him sharp. But fear, unchecked, became terror and terror grew into panic and panic created chaos. And then all hell broke loose.

Fear. It was happening all over again. That sickly helpless feeling that spread with its icy fingers, slowly eating up all faith and hope.

The day-to-day exhausted me!

It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.

Loves a tidal wave...because it sucks you under and you drown.

As it turns out, public defenders are less Superman and more Sisyphus, and there's no small number of lawyers who wind up crushed under the weight of the infinite caseloads and the crappy hours and the shitty pay.