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Quotes About Overwhelmed

If you're overwhelmed, lost, or like you life is out of control, do whatever you can that matters to someone else or ever did to you... it might not help, but it certainly won't hurt.
~ Ingrid Weir
My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
~ Adam Rapp
The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
~ Beatrice Sparks
I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.
~ Colin Marston
She herself feels unequal to the world's sufferings and fears that by narrowing her focus on the world to make it manageable, she has trivialized it.
~ Edward Hirsch
means you are more easily overwhelmed when you have been out in a highly stimulating environment for too long, bombarded by sights and sounds until you are exhausted in a nervous-system sort of way.
~ Elaine N. Aron
HSPs know all about being "too tired to sleep." They are actually too frazzled to sleep.
~ Elaine N. Aron
I did not know that I had all these feelings inside me. They have never been aroused before. Now they cascade down upon my head and threaten to beat me down to the ground, into the dust.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
Tu capisci, Lenú, che cosa succede alle persone: abbiamo troppa roba dentro e questo ci gonfia, ci rompe.
~ Elena Ferrante
It was hard to feel cheerful when someone kept telling you you were a little fish in a big sea.
~ Elif Batuman
I felt a great need to tell him how I was surrounded, overwhelmed, by things of unknown or dubious meaning, things that weren't commensurate to me in any way.
~ Elif Batuman
But if you stuck around long enough at the time, the dead and wounded piled up so quickly they squeezed one another off the narrow platforms of your memory.
~ Anthony Loyd
September 26, Newport went a little mad with grief. It was possibly,
~ Antoinette Stockenberg
Men jeg ville ikke spise, jeg kunne ikke heller – håndtaket var blitt for stort å bære, det styrte dagene mine fremdeles, styrte timene og ukene – alt bestemte dette håndtaket.
~ Arild Nyquist
You get spread out. All the demands on your time and energy leave you feeling like there isn't enough of you left to be a good dad, friend, spouse, and employee at the same time.
~ Armin A. Brott
Success happened real quick, so I was just all over the place and damn near lost my mind on the second album.
~ Redman
When I turned 17, that's when it all got a bit too much. I decided to stop doing pretty much everything. I quit football. I wouldn't get up in the morning. I wouldn't go out of my room. I was very depressed.
~ Fran Kirby
I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.
~ Niall Horan
I hyperventilate quite a lot.
~ Cara Delevingne
There's no one who, at some point, hasn't had the feeling their life is on the rails and they can't do anything about it.
~ Dove Cameron
The first two hours of that morning were such as I never experienced before, and hope never to again. Early in the morning, we went, as usual, to the field. We were spreading manure; and all at once, while thus engaged, I was overwhelmed with an indescribable feeling, in the fulness of which I turned to Sandy, who was near by, and said, We are betrayed! Well, said he, that thought has this moment struck me. We said no more. I was never more certain of any thing.
~ Frederick Douglass
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
~ Frida Kahlo
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
~ Sara Zarr