Quotes About Overwhelm

Stress vindt zijn oorsprong in een bedreigende situatie, met als extreme variant een omgeving waartegenover we volledig weerloos zijn en een waarin we zelf actief kunnen ingrijpen.

How dreadful it would be if everything toppled you and you folded in.

I am so tired — so tired. I see too many people, Read too many books. Do too many things. I hate the theaters, I hate my work, I want you, — only you.... Come to me between the cool sheets And let me burrow my head in your shoulder....

His eyes were blazing. "Tania, you are too much for me…I can't take you, not in small doses, not in large ones, not here, not on the street, nowhere.

Hay tanta angustia y espanto dentro de cada uno de nosotros que es necesario idear mecanismos de control y ponerlos a funcionar antes de llegar al punto del naufragio.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Trauma happens when any experience stuns us like a bolt out of the blue; it overwhelms us, leaving us altered and disconnected

Without words, young children sometimes show parents the parts of their experience that have overwhelmed them.

glazed eyes, pale skin, rapid or shallow pulse and breathing, disorientation, appears overly emotional or overly tranquil, i.e., acting like nothing has happened),

This is in direct relationship to nature's pendulum. We also resolve overwhelm through the natural cycles of expansion and contraction. This tells us that no matter how badly we are feeling right now, this contraction will be followed by an expansion toward freedom.

The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

All right, You Great Git, You've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even You'll be ashamed of Yourself! No wonder You've so few friends. You're unbelievable!

From Bonney's position it was as if a small fusion bomb had detonated above her, sending its billowing mushroom cloud hurtling downwards. "All this," she cried disbelievingly, "for me?

If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

The tears that weren't there yesterday flood. Break the dam and flood.

You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?