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Quotes About Overwhelmed

The minute the light changes, she told herself firmly; there's no sense. The light changed before she was ready and in the minute before she collected herself traffic turning the corner overwhelmed her and she shrank back against the curb. She looked longingly at the cigar store on the opposite corner, with her apartment house beyond; she wondered, How do people ever manage to get there, and knew that by wondering, by admitting a doubt, she was lost.
~ Shirley Jackson
Overwhelmed, Erlend felt tears fill his eyes. He hadn't realized himself how much these years of idleness had tormented him.
~ Sigrid Undset
Sometimes you feel there's like a tidal wave of stuff that continues to come. You feel trapped.
~ Simon Cowell
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I'd shake it off.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Carried away. He got a little carried away. This is like saying Hitler was a tad aggressive.
~ Sophie Kinsella
You have no idea how many people there are in the world until you start getting freaked out by them.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Well, I don't howl. Not quite. But I feel like howling.
~ Sophie Kinsella
heaviest of all woe Is theirs whose life is crushed beyond recall.
~ Sophocles
Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day, count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.
~ Sophocles
How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].
~ Henry David Thoreau
I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.
~ Hilary Duff
It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
~ Charles Bukowski, Pulp
I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
I awoke with an insatiable desire to end my life.
~ Ross Turner, Jenson
When you are overwhelmed by your circumstances and it seems things are getting tougher, remember that God is still faithful and His faithfulness endures forever.
~ Benjamin Suulola
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
~ John Naisbitt
He was managing everything by himself and being pulled in too many directions.
~ John T. Spike
Was she supposed to be impressed? If waste was impressive, she was overwhelmed.
~ John Varley
He forgot that anybody was there, and, sobbing, hid his face in his great hands.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I'm too exhausted to sleep
~ Ellen Datlow
You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.
~ Ellen Sussman
Everyone clearly needed a stiff drink in order to process what had just happened.
~ Elton John
To be taskipated simply means to be overwhelmed with tasks (challenges, difficulties or hardships). But, you shouldn't be overwhelmed with tasks. Rather, you should boldly confront and overcome your tasks (challenges, difficulties or hardships). I mean, face and tackle your tasks squarely until you are through with all of them. For, you are more powerful and capable than you think or imagine. ~Emeasoba George.
~ Emeasoba George