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Quotes About Overwhelmed

guess sometimes the world's too much to live with and a body sort of has to turn away from it to rest.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
I feel like I'm in a horror film. Everywhere I turn, there's a journalist.
~ Ksenia Sobchak
I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.
~ Joel Edgerton
When I met Justin Bieber, I could barely speak. I was just going crazy inside.
~ Noah Cyrus
The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening.
~ Michael Giles
I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.
~ Anne Reid
At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.
~ Vonda Shepard
My nerves needed a break, not a reminder of how much trouble we were in. I prowled around, but it didn't help. I still felt like my skin was on too tight.
~ Karen Chance
Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You know, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and you could hear a pin drop, and the squishing sound your heart makes is so loud in your ears you feel like youre drowning in blood, and you stand there in that suspended moment and die a thousand deaths, but not really, and the moment passes and dumps you out on the other side of it, with your mouth hanging open, and an erased blackboard where your mind used to be?
~ Karen Marie Moning
I burn everywhere and I'm hot, and I'm hot, and I'm so fecking unbelievably hot that I start tearing off my clothes and I can't do it fast enough because I feel thick and slow and stupid
~ Karen Marie Moning
I attempt to process the myriad thoughts her comment provokes, but they all collide in my head and are now lying prone like the Three Stooges after a pratfall.
~ Karen Templeton
But mostly it's because my head's too full. So I have to keep thinking until it's empty, and then I can go to sleep.
~ Karen Templeton
Jesus. After breathing in and out heavily, to prevent myself from hyperventilating, I begin to look around for cameras because, even though I'm
~ Karyn Bosnak
I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.
~ Fynn
His heart is too full, and no words to release it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But she broke down when she started losing her hair. "I know this seems ridiculous," she said. "But it's the only thing I can focus on. The rest is too huge.
~ Gail Caldwell
Sometimes I don't know what to do with this much happy.
~ Gail Giles
Invariably, people who suffer from hoarding problems fail to maintain even the most rudimentary organization of their stuff—but not from lack of effort. Like Irene, most have spent countless hours trying to organize their possessions, with little success. Deficits in executive functions such as planning, categorization, organization, and attention leave them lost amid a sea of things, unable to figure out what to do next.
~ Gail Steketee
Every so often I was overwhelmed by a phantom pain that cut through me like a knife. I was certain that if I looked down I would find blood all over, like the knife I once held in my hands, but it was all in my mind.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
~ Brett Favre
Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.
~ Bridget Moynahan
it's taking over me.
~ Britney Spears
Oprah: She needs people to step up—people who support her, give her some breaks, step in and do some of those things with her children. We're not meant to be isolated and alone. We're actually meant to work together. So when a single mom is living on a limited income, trying to manage four children, trying to be mother and father, and she feels overwhelmed or feels like it's impossible to do it all—it's because it is impossible.
~ Bruce D. Perry