Quotes & Sayings About Being Overextended

It was a night of impossible things, and he fought to stay awake, to be conscious and alert for as long as possible, to enjoy and repeat to himself everything that had happened to him, a lifetime's worth of wishes coming true in a few brief hours. — Hanya Yanagihara

I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something but all I get are wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this can't catch her. — Haruki Murakami

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone. — Anthony Hopkins

It was alright to be afraid of something, as long as you didn't let the fear control you. — Katie MacAlister

To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil. -The Last Days of Socrates — Plato

I'm breathing ... are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it? — Robert Bolt

So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of. — Moby

Joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for her. (215) — Andre Dubus III

I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me. — Diyar Harraz

And keep you in the rear of your affection,
Out of the shot and danger of desire,
The chariest maid is prodigal enough
If she unmasks her beauty to the moon. — William Shakespeare

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. — Thomas Jefferson

If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not be a desire then. If you want to move in it you can move into it as a fun, but not as a desire. Then there is no obsession in it because you are not dependent on it. — Rajneesh

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly. — Albert Einstein

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind. — Laura Ingalls Wilder