Quotes About Overwhelm

And she turns up the music, to drown out her life.

There's this girl whose heart hurts inside. She aches in pain and sadness that overwhelms her. She knows her life is a total blur. There's this girl who really cries out wondering where she'll end up. But I try to cover her up with a good look and smile. But we all know who I really am...We all know I'm really her.

When a girl cries, it's not usually over one thing. It's built up anger and emotions that she's been holding in for too long...

El miedo era como una copa de pánico cuyo contenido se agitaba en mi interior, amenazando con verterse de un momento a otro.

He is such a flood, I thought.

Fear sloshed over me, each wave colder than the last.

The gown rustles and slides around her, speaking a glossolalia all of its own, the silk moving against the rougher nap of the underskirts, the bone supports of the bodice straining and squealing against their coverings, the cuffs scuffing and chafing the skin of her wrists, the stiffened collar hooking and nibbling at her nape, the hip supports creaking like the rigging of a ship. It is a symphony, an orchestra of fabrics, and Lucrezia would like to cover her ears, but she cannot.

Having a brain spinning like that, having a brain bottoming out like that, carrying around that psychic baggage all the time—it wears you out.

Imagine a migraine, on top of a hangover, while sitting in a kindergarten of thirty screaming children, who are all taking turns stabbing you in the eye with an ice pick.

When things are hidden, there will always be people who object, and who will then go out of their way to preserve and store what is being hidden, so that someone can find it later, either intentionally or by simply stumbling over it. This is why I never tried to hide alternative takes of history. It makes them more attractive to future historians when you do. I smothered them under strata of official history instead." "Never hide, just overwhelm," Cardenia joked.

The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

But if you don't see and accept things as they actually are, you won't know how to act. Or you might be overwhelmed by fear, and that fear might cloud the mind just when you most need clarity and equanimity, or at least, if clarity and equanimity seem elusive, just when you need to be aware of the fear so that you can find ways to work with it rather than have it work against you.

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it? To be dragged under?

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

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!!!

What an incredible drug fear is.

Anxiety, it just stops your life.

Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.

Nothing worse than being annoyed and hurt about being upset...fu.. everything.

I raised my eyes to those flavescent, frizzy locks and felt myself caught in their swirl and swept away, with a throbbing heart, amid the lightning and the blasts of a hurricane of beauty.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.