Feeling overwhelmed Quote by China Miéville

“He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. The room looked like a…

— Devon Monk

“I found it increasingly difficult to shake the suspicion that work was all about pretending to care about pointless stuff, and that success hinged…

— Johanna Hedman

“I waited for him to find an answer. Minutes passed. It came to me that he had quit. He had glimpsed a glorious ideal,…

— John Gardner

“He wondered why, after years of wanting to stand at the very top, he felt so goddamned empty.”

— Jodi Picoult

“But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire,…

— Douglas Clegg

“There was a merciless gnawing in my chest, a queer silent labor was going on in there. I pictured a score of nice teeny-weeny…

— Knut Hamsun

“He had been given the job and he was going to do it. But now for the first time he hated it genuinely. Perhaps…

— Norman Mailer

“He found himself grinning at her. His nervousness had disappeared, and suddenly he had a sense of his own size, his physical strength, his…

— Howard Fast

“As if grabbed by strong arms that were not there, he felt himself being lifted. Raising skyward and spinning, he fought to regain orientation.…

— Stephen Craig

“He crowded down the surge of feeling that distracted him from the task at hand.”

— Mar Preston

“he crawled on across the farmyard, keeping as low as he could, but trying to watch every direction, too. He had never thought he…

— Robert Jordan

“His stamina was so inhuman that some wondered if he was actually human. Cook worked twelve to fourteen hours a day but insisted he…

— Yukari Iwatani Kane