Emotional Overwhelm Quotes

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?

Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

I knew it... I'm surrounded by assholes!

Passion paralyzes good taste.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

Man, to make the Hall would be incredible. I'd cry for, like, five weeks straight.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.