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Quotes about Overwhelm

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Biography can overwhelm philosophy in the best of us.
- Os Guinness
be. Paul said this is the reason that "in all these things we are more than conquerors." We are super-victors with a joy that comes from experiencing the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us.
- Oswald Chambers
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
- Job 3:5
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
- Job 9:18
Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
- Job 27:20
so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
- Psalm 83:15
When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.
- Psalm 94:19
when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
- Proverbs 1:27
They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.
- Ezekiel 7:18
sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years w/out feeling anything new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with..
- Paulo Coelho
One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you cope with.
- Paulo Coelho