Quotes About Overwhelm

Sería imposible describir el peso de toda esa culpa.

We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn't help anything. The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.

Life is so infinitely hard. It involves a thousand tasks all at once. And I am a thousand different people, all fleeing away from the centre.

Life can sometimes feel like an overproduced song, with a cacophony of a hundred instruments playing all at once. Sometimes the song sounds better stripped back to just a guitar and a voice. Sometimes, when a song has too much happening, it's hard to hear the song at all.

I want to know if one of the reasons I sometimes feel like I am on the brink of a breakdown is partly because the world sometimes seems on the brink of a breakdown.

That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friends friends.

Overloaded neurons on a nervous planet

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

The thought was like a ceaseless mind-cramp, something too uncomfortable to bear yet too strong to avoid.

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

I had a feeling of dizziness caused by that rare sense that things were moving fast, not just in my life but in the world. I had been in New York for a few hours now, and the feeling had not waned.

You get near a black hole and the gravitational pull drags you into its bleak, dark reality.

The human brain just isn't designed to take in a whole world's worth of disturbing news. Most of us have enough trouble with the more mundane problems of finding inner peace and securing happiness for our loved ones.

If you don't break from the tensions of daily living, they will break you.

That's the thing I hate most about my brain, the way it stores and catalogs things, all this dumb shit on a giant hard drive in my head, so I'm forced to obsess over it all like a crazy person.

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

It feels like I've got all the flames in hell burning in my head.

For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been a collision. I feel too much, sense too much, am exhausted by the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.

How are any of us in this room supposed to care about anything, when we're constantly being pulled back by unbearable thoughts and feelings?

And it hurts to be feeling this much

Little people irritate me. I felt like this monstrous giant alongside them.

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

He recognized another factor that should not be underestimated: The serpent mesmerizes. Whenever it cannot seduce, it attempts to overwhelm. It is like a cobra projecting an image of its power in order to paralyze its victim with fear, disabling its defenses without a struggle, before devouring it. In the victim's eyes the threat grows so large that it becomes everything and appears to be irresistible. So too Satan desires that we think him omnipotent and omniscient.

I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? Too much, too fast.