Sarah Dessen Quotes

I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.

I feel the pressure.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

I work, and I'm a full-time mom, and it's hard for me to sit down and relax because it's like, 'Crap, there's something I'm forgetting.'