“It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.” IfsLifeHumansMayHelpingLife IsSpaceAcceptingOur LivesEventsReturnDustHuman LifeOverwhelmingEnd TimesSpend TimeUnfathomable Author:Alain de Botton
“An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.” MayLongHappensEventsChainsSignificanceOverwhelmingColossal Book:100%: The Story of a Patriot Source: 100%: The Story of a Patriot
“You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.” KnowsWorldLooksHappensSituationNovelEventsChaosPhilosopherRelatedOverwhelmingAnarchyLive Your LifeSmashingRandom Events Author:Joe Walsh
“When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it aside after a while. To actually comprehend the human tragedy of these events is overwhelming. We see so many images, but there's always the sense, for Americans, that it's not in our backyard. That's another reason why the war in Bosnia was so fascinating; because it really was in Europe's backyard. It was in Europe. And they didn't do anything about it for years. It took the Americans to end that war, really. That's a shame.” PeopleYearsHumansWarEndsReasonDyingCarEventsGoes OnEuropeBasesTragedyShameIraqReason WhyFascinatingOverwhelmingBrushesBombingBackyardsBosniaPeople Dying Author:Richard Shepard
“That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.” TryingJoyEventsOverwhelmingTypewriters Author:Charles Kuralt
“When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.” EndsMomentsSeemsBehindsOur LivesEventsRaisesMereChaosLeavingAccidentsIsolationOverwhelmingContemplatingSuccession Author:Karl Jaspers
“But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.” IfsRiskEffectsSecurityEventsReturnMiracleRegardMajorityTheologyOverwhelmingBargainsUniformity Author:C. S. Lewis