Quotes About Overwhelm

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

It is possible to drown in information... and die for lack of wisdom.

These problems have been here so long that the only way I've been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.

Loud noises, bright lights, the motion of a passing car, all made him swoon.

The real God...will give us more than we can handle just to show us that only he can handle things.

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said--

Best to have only a few absolutely perfect trait - for example, my hair and eyes and sparkling personality - so you don't overwhelm.

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

Our procrastination is fueled by our perfectionism. We get caught in the trap of thinking we don't have time to do it right. This is when we do nothing. Eventually the procrastination bites us hard and our homes become overwhelming.

Feelings are. They come plowing into my life without warning, permission or balance. They simply show up and take over my brain.

Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell.

For introverts who have a high level of internal activity, anything coming from the outside raises their intensity level index quickly. It's kind of like being tickled—the sensation goes from feeling good and fun to "too much" and uncomfortable in a split second.

Anything that requires energy, like being in the outside world, having people in her space, dealing with conflict, and interacting with others, requires energy output and so is draining. She likes the familiar (since these situations burn less energy), needs to ease into new situations, and may not be able to think or make decisions around too much stimuli or too many people.

In truth, fear is the power [of darkness]. So if you are afraid of what is about to come upon you, it will overwhelm you, and not one among them will spare you or show you mercy.

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

We have become so inundated with information that the average person in the United States now reads daily the same number of words as is found in many a novel. Unfortunately, this form of reading is rarely continuous, sustained, or concentrated; rather, the average 34 gigabytes consumed by most of us represent one spasmodic burst of activity after another.

If you have unconditionally taken in all the words that flood this world, you have acquired an enormous burden. You have lost your freedom; you are in pain;

If you don't do something you will simply get overwhelmed by something happening.

How overwhelming the world could seem when you were thrust into the guts of it. How little power you realized human beings actually had compared with the earth.