Overwhelming Quotes

“What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of adaptation. She must find a way to preserve a sense of trust in people who are untrustworthy, safety in a situation that is unsafe, control in a situation that is terrifyingly unpredictable, power in a situation of helplessness. Unable to care for or protect herself, she must compensate for the failures of adult care and protection with the only means at her disposal, an immature system of psychological defenses.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.”
― Erlend Loe, Naïve. Super

“Balanced self-esteem makes individuals glow from within when they are faced with challenges or pitted against overwhelming odds.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

“Even today, more than eighty years after Oort's bold guess, we still don't have a clue what this dark matter is made of. We know it exists. We know where it is. We have maps of its presence within and around galaxies throughout the universe. We even have stringent constraints on what it is not, but we have no clue what it is. And yes, its presence is overwhelming: for every one kilogram of ordinary matter made out of neutrons and protons and electrons, there are five kilograms of dark matter, made out of who-knows-what.”
― Christophe Galfard, The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond

“Have we learned nothing from history? A tyrant only fears overwhelming military force.”
― Ken Poirot

“When life becomes scattered and completely a faction of what it once was, and everything you thought was once true, seems false. Your heart feels empty, as it leaves your chest. Your mind is blank. Your emotions become so overwhelming you can hardly speak. You’re thinking you have a broken heart when in reality you heart, body and soul are rearranging your inner thoughts, feelings and the way you’re going to except things from now on. You’ll become stronger then you ever imagined. All you need is time. Give yourself time.”
― Ron Baratono

“When he said that, my body just let go. I remember the exact traffic light I was at. For a moment there was a complete vacuum of sound and then I cried tears like I had never cried before. I collapsed in heaving sobs and moans. I cried as if every other thing I'd cried for in my life had been a waste of crying. I cried so hard that if my present crying seld could go back in time and see my other crying selves, it would slap them and say, "That's shit's not worth crying for." My cry was not a cry of sadness. It was not catharsis. It wasn't me feeling sad for myself. It was an expression of raw pain that came from an inability of my body to express that pain in any other way, shape or form. She was my mom. She was my teammate. It has always been me and her torgether, me and her against the world. When Andrew said, "shot her in the head," I broke in two.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“The problems were too evident, they sat together eyeing them in silence. The stage now belonged to the young people, there would be happenings. Yet nothing happened; and Clement felt as if a magic spell had paralysed them all.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Now that the doors of possibility had magically opened one after the other, Ludens realised how much comfort he had derived from uncertainty.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Some things take hold of you. Invade you. Own you. You want to be free of them, but you never will be.”
― Rich Shapero, Rin, Tongue and Dorner

“Sometimes Waldemar loves me too much. He thinks it is better I stay with him on Earth, rather than be happy in the other place without him.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“When he said that, my body just let go. I remember the exact traffic light I was at. For a moment there was a complete vacuum of sound and then I cried tears like I had never cried before. I collapsed in heaving sobs and moans. I cried as if every other thing I'd cried for in my life had been a waste of crying. I cried so hard that if my present self could go back in time and see my other crying selves, it would slap them and say that shit's not crying for." My cry was not a cry of sadness. It was not catharsis. It wasn't me feeling sorry for myself. It was an expression of raw pain that came from an inability of my body to express that pain in any other way, shape, or form. She was my mom. She was my teammate. It had always been me and her together, me and her against the world. When Andrew said, "shot her in the head," I broke in two.”
― Trevor Noah, It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Listen, there are other things in life besides the day-to-day, all of this is great but really, it's going nowhere... It seems like I don't have time to do anything. I'm stuck... I do a million things and nothing comes out...”
― Dominique Goblet, Pretending Is Lying

“Overwhelming ! People think about jumping off bridges . . . when they see what I have on my plate . . . and thats just before lunch”
― Kevin Kolenda

“For me, who has been so much alone, it feels like drowning in a deluge of sights and sounds and smells.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Overwhelming praise with insight executes one's vision and knowledge; otherwise, it pictures only the motives of diplomacy, not the reality.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“There is very little support for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea and there is overwhelming support to shut the biologically toxic project down.”
― Steven Magee

“Grief is work, and sometimes it's very hard work. It can be overwhelming.”
― Dave Furman, Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting

“You are pouring out Your Spirit,
You are pouring out all of Your love,
It is overwhelming and overflowing like a river,
Your Love will never run dry.”
― Jennifer Aquillo

“COVID-19 is overwhelming hospitals and Heaven.”
― Steven Magee

“Sometimes I feel as if there's too much information going into too small a brain. - Paula, 56”
― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women

“Dragomir knew he'd never given much thought to love. He'd thought about his lifemate often. He'd been obsessed with finding her for centuries, but he'd never considered what he would feel when he found her. Not love. Not this overwhelming, terrifying feeling that shook him to his core. He hadn't known love could be felt through one's entire body. That it could manifest itself physically.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Legacy

“Overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us enough to die for us." Roman 8:37”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“No había nadie en el mundo de mi misma sangre, y así, me era posible ir a cualquier lugar y hacer cualquier cosa. Era magnífico.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Seems to me the problem with extreme sickness in the population that is overwhelming hospitals is depressed human immune systems, and not solely the viruses.”
― Steven Magee

“I knew I was disabled when everyday home activities became overwhelming!”
― Steven Magee