Quotes about Overwhelm

What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feeling that there were a knife and fork too many, and that mine; an appetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, and those mine; a somebody too many, and that I!

It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.

For these treasures, and everything that he collected in his lovely house, were to be to him means of forgetfulness, modes by which he could escape, for a season, from the fear that seemed to him at times to be almost too great to be borne.

We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.

Worries, he'd learned, are like rabbits: they compound in the dark.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

It's not that I can't fall in love. It's really that I can't help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can't distinguish between what's platonic and what isn't, because it's all too much and not enough at the same time.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that crisis reaction has become a habit.