Overwhelmingness Quotes

“...suddenly [I] began to cry for no reason at all—or perhaps for everything for which I had no name.”
― Ghassan Kanafani, ما تبقى لكم

“The world is sometimes too much for Bit, too full of terror and beauty. Every day he finds himself squeezed under a new astonishment. The universe pulses outward at impossible speeds. Bit feels its spin into nothing.”
― Lauren Groff, Arcadia

“The past is so far away, but it flickers,

then cleaves the night. The bones

of the past splinter between our teeth.

This is our life, love. Why did I think

it would be anything less than too much

of everything?”
― Ellen Bass