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Quotes About Overwhelmed

In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring America.
~ Paul Rodgers
In Atlanta, my mom came and came downstairs and we were talking like behind the crowd. People from the crowd saw me and started running towards me, asking for pictures and stuff. This girl asked for a picture, and after she got it, she passed out.
~ Lil Mosey
If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.
~ Lenny Abrahamson
When you are a rookie you are going through everything for the first time, your first DNP, your first not seeing eye to eye with a coach, first understanding trades happen, guys making more money play more. I was overwhelmed. I had a lot of maturing to do.
~ Jamal Crawford
Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.
~ S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.
~ Pope Francis
Stevie clearly didn't have control over her issues. She panicked easy. She cried easy. She exploded into rage real easy. And when she did all three at the same time . . .
~ Shelly Laurenston
His climax began gathering again, rising toward a point of no return. He didn't know if he could restrain himself this time: He was too close, too near to being overwhelmed. She cried out, trembling exclamations. He lost all control, his release hot, violent, and endless.
~ Sherry Thomas
Overwhelmed by the volume and velocity of our lives, we turn to technology to help us find time. But technology makes us busier than ever and ever more in search of retreat. Gradually, we come to see our online life as life itself.
~ Sherry Turkle
Into the cities my people had gathered. They had become dizzy with words. Words had choked them. They could not breathe.
~ Sherwood Anderson
I am tired of these escape plans. I'm tired of everything. I just want it all to end.
~ Shyam Selvadurai
1847, the Emperor's favourite, but: the Preobrazhensky Regiment... got totally drunk. The Pavlovsky, our revolutionary buttress, also couldn't resist. We sent guards from other picked units - all got utterly drunk. We posted guards from the Regimental Committees - they succumbed as well. We despatched armoured cars to drive away the crowd, but after a while they also began to weave suspiciously. When evening came, a violent bacchanalia overflowed.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex
~ Simone Elkeles
I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.
~ Simone Elkeles
I'm so in love with you I can't stand up.
~ Kim Addonizio
In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.
~ Chris Robinson
The view out the window was too much—the whoosh through the tunnel, the bright subway ads flashing by, taunting her with offers for travel insurance, human-sized pictures of chocolate bars . . . all the flotsam and jetsam of life. Numbers and houses and futures and food. Why did all this stuff have to fly into her face? Who needed it all? Why go this fast?
~ Maureen Johnson
And with the final question, "Why didn't they fight back?" came the inevitable dismissal. "Because it would not have made a difference.
~ Max Brooks
He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. "You're real. You're real." She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn't hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.
~ Maya Banks
Oh hell. A warm, lush, naked woman coming on to him? Nothing in the military had prepared him for an onslaught like this. The never-surrender thing went right out the window, and he started waving the white flag like a dog wagging his tail.
~ Maya Banks
Genevieve burst into laughter and hugged him fiercely, because otherwise she would cry. Not because she was unhappy but because joy crowded every inch of her heart and soul. She was about to burst with it.
~ Maya Banks
Her eyes widened and a strangled sound escaped her throat as she sought to process the sudden wash of conflicting sensations that bombarded her from every angle. He was deep. Impossibly deep. She surrounded him. He surrounded her. Their hips were flush against each other. His body covered hers possessively. There was a burning ache deep inside her, and she couldn't discern whether it was pleasure or pain.
~ Maya Banks
He felt strangled by helplessness.
~ Maya Banks
I mean it. Like, people always talk about how God doesn't ever give you more than you can handle, but I'm telling you right now, I cannot handle this. This is just too much!
~ Meg Cabot