Overwhelming Quotes
603 Overwhelming quotes by 508 unique authors
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Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most…
— Nicole Krauss
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ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust. I…
— Emily Giffin
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It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life.…
— Elie Wiesel
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Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is…
— Tim O'Brien
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Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If you’re young, and you’re romantically in love with somebody, and…
— Dylan Moran
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Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:…
— John Green
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I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go…
— Haruki Murakami
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Why do things this beautiful make me want to cry?" I asked Michael as I leaned into him. It was an unguarded question, one I'd…
— James Patterson
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schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept…
— Bell Hooks
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They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a…
— Neal Stephenson
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Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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A sea of red lights, and I slow down. My job now is to gather everyone together and tell them we have to let her…
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
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I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up…
— Lauren Oliver
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I don’t like you in danger. When a man finds the only person of worth to him, that one person who matters more than anything…
— Christine Feehan
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…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside…
— Nora Ephron
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The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my…
— Lauren Oliver
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Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies?…
— George Orwell
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maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside
— James Patterson
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A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I…
— Charles Bukowski
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I think love is huge, overwhelming. I think it's terrible and beautiful.
— Elizabeth Scott
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Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions:…
— Sigmund Freud
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How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together…
— Ilona Andrews
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I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any…
— Cate Tiernan
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Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you…
— David Foster Wallace
Who Wrote These Overwhelming Quotes
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