“the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)”

“It was absurd and frustrating, to feel so much and know so little.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

“We think too much and feel too little.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

“I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

“The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.”

Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister

“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster

“Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

“There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too sad.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist