Quotes About Overwhelm

I was always asking myself why. Why am I feeling this? Thinking that if I knew the cause I could find the cure. But of course there was no reasonable why, at least not in the present. I was awash in an accumulation of past feelings and future dreads, all similar, at least as far as my brain was concerned, and so, lumped together as one. But nobody can handle a lifetime of experience in one moment. That's why depression crushes you.

?fadesi güç ?eyler dü?ünüyorum. ?eyler... ?eyler.' Durur, kafas?n? toparlama?a çal???rd?. 'Çok saçma ?eyler, çok önemsiz ?eyler de dü?ünüyorum. Kafam hiç durmadan çal???yor. Önemli, önemsiz: ben s?raya koymaya f?rsat bulamadan büyük bir h?zla geçiyorlar. Geriye yaln?z yorgunluk kal?yor. Okumal?y?m ve bütün bunlar? unutmal?y?m.

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

De nada sirve que nos tapemos las orejas. Los comentarios, las risitas irónicas, los cascotes que caen de no se sabe dónde, nos atormentan en tal forma los minutos del día y del insomnio, que nos dan ganas de suicidarnos nuevamente.

Les vagues sont hautes ce soir. Elles me frappent, me rouent de coups, s'abattent sur moi avec toute la brutalité nécessaire. À cet instant c'est exactement ce que j'attends d'elles. Qu'elles m'assomment. Me foutent la tête sous l'eau.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Biography can overwhelm philosophy in the best of us.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.

be. Paul said this is the reason that "in all these things we are more than conquerors." We are super-victors with a joy that comes from experiencing the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us.

library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books...

It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.

The madness of Christmas is not to be resisted by any human means. It either stealthily creeps or crudely batters its way into every fastness or fortress of prudence all over the land.

defines trauma as "any experience which stuns us like a bolt out of the blue; it overwhelms us, leaving us altered and disconnected from our bodies

Burnout is nothing more than your body reaching the end of its physical, emotional, and mental resources.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

Some days simply lay on you like stones.

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I've been set afire.

Había días que te aplastaban como una losa.

That's American know-how for you. It keeps coming at you, and every minute there's new junk to push out the old junk.

it means: 1) to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self, to bathe; 2) to overwhelm;

She was a whirlpool, she was a whirlpool, And I very nearly drowned.

La fuerza es tan despiadada con quien la posee como con quien la sufre: a este lo aplasta, al primero lo envenena.

Compulsive workers tend to be overly sensitive and suffer from intense emotions including depression and anxiety.