Overwhelms Quotes

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion. - Jack Dee

These people really find themselves in an impossible situation. It just overwhelms a person in a country like ours, in terms of comprehending this. - Dave Biviano

There's this girl whose heart hurts inside. She aches in pain and sadness that overwhelms her. She knows her life is a total blur. There's this girl who really cries out wondering where she'll end up. But I try to cover her up with a good look and smile. But we all know who I really am...We all know I'm really her. - Unknown

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. - Elias Canetti

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death. - Louis Ferdinand Celine

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America. - William Least Heat-Moon

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened. - Joseph C. Wilson

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. - Hart Crane