Quotes about Overwhelm
All shall love me and despair.
— JRR Tolkien
People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
— Margaret Atwood
It's all too much and not enough at the same time.
— Jack Kerouac
It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.
— Anne Frank
that getting all of one's addictions under control is a little like putting an octopus to bed.
— Anne Lamott
The passages also offer an assurance that God has such resistance under control and will ultimately overwhelm it.
— John Goldingay
Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.
— Kevin DeYoung
The world is so complex and overstimulating that you can easily lose your sense of direction. Doing countless unnecessary activities will dissipate your energy.
— Sarah Young
Architecture excites our respect to the extent that it surpasses us.
— Alain de Botton
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
— Aldous Huxley
The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-
— F Scott Fitzgerald