Quotes About Overwhelmed

Often we are so burdened and overwhelmed with other thoughts, images, and concerns that it may take a long time before God's Word has cleared all that away and gets through to us.

They got me busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest.

Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that there were greater invisible beings who could and did understand and control both the human psyche and the world. 'I can't make sense of it, but I have to believe that there is a larger perspective within which it all makes sense.

In trying to be strong for them, I had cheated them out of opportunities to strengthen me. Guilt overwhelmed me, because I could-at last-see their gifts to me. The shame flowed all over me, and I began to cry. This is their ministry, I thought, and I've been spoiling it. I felt such intense shame over not letting them help. When I finally did open up, I witnessed a drastic

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.

In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of an octopus. Play dead, he told himself. But how?

Politics has clogged the air of my life.

Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

Es ist, als ob mein Gehirn so schnell laufen würde, dass ich nicht mitkomme. Worte. Farben. Klänge. Manchmal schiebt sich alles andere in den Hintergrund, und was zurückbleibt, ist der Klang.

It's like my brain is firing so fast that it can't keep up with itself. Words. Colors. Sounds. Sometimes everything else fades into the background and all I'm left with is sound. I can hear everything, but not just hear it—I can feel it too. But then it can come on all at once—the sounds turn into light, and the light goes too bright, and it's like it's slicing me in two

I write: Reason for not jumping: Too messy. Too public. Too crowded.

I whispered "I'm not," even though I was. Not scared of him, but scared of everything I felt. Sometimes it was too much. What I felt for him was bigger than the world, than anything.

That's how I'm feeling about everything these days: ugh. No.

A veces me gustas tanto que no puedo soportarlo. Me llena internamente, todo el camino hasta el borde, y siento como si pudiera desbordarme. Me gustas tanto que no sé qué hacer. Mi corazón late muy rápido cuando sé que voy a verte de nuevo. Y luego, cuando me miras como lo haces, me siento como la chica más afortunada del mundo.

I can feel tears and panic building up inside me. If she asks me another question, it will be too much, and I'll cry.

Kitty's been a nervous bundle of energy all day; it's like her birthday and Christmas and first day of school combined.

I think we're delirious from lack of sleep.

Sometimes I like you so much I can't stand it. It fills up inside me, all the way to the brim, and I feel like I could overflow. I like you so much I don't know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I'm going to see you again. And then, when you look at me the way you do, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.

Somebody come quick with the smelling salts; I'm about to faint.

She tried to clear her mind. It didn't work. Her mind was a hoarder.

My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism.

In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago, but I have no concentration: the time slips through my fingers like water.