Being Overwhelmed Quotes

“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“The world is sometimes too much for Bit, too full of terror and beauty. Every day he finds himself squeezed under a new astonishment. The universe pulses outward at impossible speeds. Bit feels its spin into nothing.”
― Lauren Groff, Arcadia

“What do you think Frederick is trying to say with his pictures?"

"That the world is too much for him." They turned onto a dirt road. White dust rose around the car. "Children say it all the time in different ways. The privilege is lost with age.”
― Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

“Being overwhelmed isn’t something that happens to you; you create it yourself.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide