Quotes About Overwhelm

sensory-specific satiety." In lay terms, this is the tendency for big distinct flavors to overwhelm the brain, which responds by making you feel full, or satiated, really fast.

Se c'è un termine che mi definisce veramente è «troppo». Mi innamoro troppo. Mi appassiono troppo. Mi stanco troppo. Mi arrabbio troppo.

Another girl who wanted too much too desperately, and knew neither how to get it nor how to make it stop.

On bad days I have seventeen or twenty-four E-mail messages.

this seemed to be that time in his life when he could suck the life out of any project no matter how promising it appeared

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

He couldn't believe that there were so many books in the world. Who could possibly read them all?

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

This generation of ours is dead tired. Their engines are not too powerful to withstand all the pressures of life.

God, it was hard to think when the force of his personality was smashing against her senses.

Too much beauty can be hard to bear.

Don't you feel more than one thing at a time? That's what insanity is, trying to feel one way. That's why it feels good to go crazy. Or to be addicted. It's so much easier than feeling several things at once. -Miles

Une myriade d'extases. Sidère-moi, je dis au monde. Excite-moi, éblouis-moi, étourdis-moi, que ça ne s'arrête jamais.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

make content so abundantly available, context be damned, that we'll be overwhelmed by "information glut" until what is truly meaningful is lost and we no longer care what we've lost as long as we're being amused....

When our brain is overtaxed, we find "distractions more distracting.

Fridays! They are the worst. Days stuffed with itsy-bitsy multicoloured tasks that fill every second of the day, but like M&M´s fail to nourish in any way.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Propose solutions? As if the world were not drowning in solutions!

You can get the clothes into the washing machine. You can get them out. You can arrange them over the radiators to dry. You can collect the dried clothes and put them in a heap ready for sorting. But you cannot, cannot, get the clothes back into their cupboards and drawers. Until that pile at the end of the bed becomes a volcano of frustration and accusation and despair; ever growing, ever depleting you.

CHRISTMAS is at our throats again.