Two quotes from Soren Kierkegaard from Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing.

"...the press of busyness is like a charam. And it is sad to observe how its power swells, how it reaches our seeking always to lay hold of everyounger victimsso that childhood or youth are scarcely allowed the quiet and the retirement in which the Eternal my unfold a divine growth."

"...the press of busyness into which one steadily enters further and further, and the noise in which the truth continually slips more and more into oblivion, and the mass of connections, stimuli, and hindrances, these make it ever more impossible for one to win any deeper knowledge of himself."