Breakdown Quotes - Page 2

• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

  R. D. Laing

  Break Through, Diversity, May

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 6

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• Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.

  John C. Maxwell

  Track, Faces, Life Is

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.75, Harper Collins

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• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  Earl Wilson

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

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• To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.

  Rajneesh

  Masters, Owners, Function

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• Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.

  Kamisese Mara

  Confidence, Jobs, Loss

  Report to President Ganilau, May 15, 1992.

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• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Work, Stress

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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• Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

  Christopher Lasch

  Order, Moral, Birth

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• Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

  Anjelica Huston

  Emotional, Six, Seven

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• I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

  Andy Gibb

  Hell And Back, Nervous, Has Beens

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• I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

  Kathy Griffin

  Remember

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• I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Work, Believe, Men

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• I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

  Lionel Blue

  Gay, Nervous, Sexuality

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• And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

  Hu Shih

  Mean, Revolution, Authority

  Hu Shih (2013). “English Writings of Hu Shih: Chinese Philosophy and Intellectual History”, p.141, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

  Lauren Hutton

  Makeup, Lasts, Needs

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• The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

  Jacques Derrida

  School, Paris, Sick

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• We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

  Jerry Falwell

  Sex, Alternatives, Benefits

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• A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

  Art Buchwald

  Want, Nervous, Frenchmen

  Art Buchwald (1977). “Down the Seine and up the Potomac with Art Buchwald”, Fawcett Books

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• On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Believe, Hands, Happenings

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• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Girl, Anorexia, Form

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• I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.

  Elijah

  Feel Better, Comfort, Want

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• I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

  Kate Bush

  Couple, Tired, Thinking

  "I'm not some weirdo recluse". Interview with Tom Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2005.

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• The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, Heart, Tanks

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

  Emma Thompson

  Bottles, Typical, Film

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• Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Moving, Creativity

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