Quotes About Overwhelmed

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle.

Oh ! madame, si vous êtes si instamment attendue, permettez-moi de m'éloigner, car il me serait impossible de vous parler en ce moment. Je suis incapable de rassembler deux idées ; votre vue m'a ébloui. Je ne pense plus, j'admire.

No halfway emotions can exist in a heart swollen with utmost despair.

he sat down in the chair and went over in his mind everything that in the past week or so had filled his cup of bitter sorrows and dark memories to overflowing.

Mi se p?rea c? m? strânge de mân? È™i c? inima este gata s? sar? din piept, "Da, tu eÈ™ti f?cut? pentru mine, n?scut? pentru mine!..." ?i eu nu È™tiam cum s? în?buÈ™ aceste cuvinte care erau gata s?-mi zboare de pe buze!

Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried to run away, it followed you through the grass and lay down beside you, it overtook common sense and willpower.

In the dining hall of the home, Stella had seen so much death, that one Saturday morning she'd been compelled to sink down onto the linoleum floor, overwhelmed not so much by the sorrow of it all, but by the human dignity, the almost supernatural ability to face the abyss and still order scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast.

Sue isn't the only one to be overwhelmed and brought to tears. Lots of people are doing it, just standing there crying. They're letting it all out, their sorrow, their desperation, their hope, right there, right now, in the presence of Helene's shrine, for that is what the house has become.

It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.

Pretty soon it feel like I can't think. My mind run up on a thought, git confuse, run back and sort of lay down.

At about this time something occurred which caused my cup of joy, already full, to overflow on all sides, a circular cataract of bliss.

I was too busy wallowing in pain and bitterness. Too busy being tragic.

She scarcely ever had a moment to herself, but she was grateful for that, too. When she was alone, the things she had seen and done the day of the uprising rushed into her mind, like filthy water into a holed boat, and dragged her down so quickly she felt she was drowning.

A kiköt?ig ért a házam el?tt tipródó udvarlók sora, és én már nem bírtam a férfias könnyek árját, kénytelen voltam menekülni.

Now he'd started crying he couldn't seem to stop. No more than you can rebuild a burst dam when the flood's still surging through. That's the problem with making yourself hard. Once you crack, there's no putting yourself back together.

In the other scenario, the cell becomes too overwhelmed with the continual bombardment of feelings and emotions on a moment-to-moment basis to allow all the chemical messengers to dock. Because the same chemicals are more or less hanging around outside the cell's docking-station doors day in and day out, the cell gets used to those chemicals being there. So only when the brain produces a lot more heightened emotions does the cell become willing to open its doors.

When you feel helpless, you'll do just about any old thing to shut off your head.

Estou tão cansada – falou. – De sentir medo. De não conseguir ajudar as pessoas.

Harper smiled weakly for Renée, but felt unsteady and sick. She had to close her eyes to withstand the assault of the last thunderous verse—her Dragonscale crawled unpleasantly, and the only thought she could manage was, Stop, stop, stop—and when it was over, and the room erupted into stamping feet and whistles and applause, it was all she could do not to cry.

A man who couldn't tolerate small failings in himself was staggered by a big one.

my eyes blurred wetly with hot tears