Quotes About Overwhelmed

The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded. The

A storm of sobs was filling my chest.

I wasn't prepared for you, Elise. Holy hell…not even close.

I can understand why people jump off bridges.

We've got ourselves a lot of bereavement overload

If you'd see my schedule, you'd know I have no time to slow down.

When you have so many people, Isobel, it's almost the same as having no people at all.

Being in a room with that many people was starting to make me itch.

won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.

You obliterated me.

Good Gad! It looks like the last act of Hamlet in here. Turnip banged his head against his clenched fists, making inarticulate moaning noises. Pinchingdale gave him an odd look. 'I had no idea you felt so strongly about the play, Fitzhugh.

Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make it utterly impossible for me to do an adequate job and keep a clean desk.

Here the stars dazzled her eyes like sequins. This is what infinity looks like, she thought. Their clarity overwhelmed her, like pinpricks at her heart.

the right side of her heart had swollen, as if it had had too much to hold.

The weight of everything he's read settles on him, crushing him to his chair. It is too heavy. He cannot even lift his head.

The rush of things she wanted to say churned in her head.

Wait a minute, can't you? I've only got three hands.

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

I'm a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants

what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me

Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!

Busier than a Mosquito at a Nudist Colony

None of us understand the infinite universe. Most people who start thinking about it, get overwhelmed, shrug their shoulders, and turn their attention back to something mundane, like drinking beer or watching TV. Only a few great minds have ever actually contemplated the nature of the universe. Fewer still have done it without going insane.

Pour fuir ce monde saturé d'écrans, mais vide d'intelligence.