Nervous Breakdown Quotes - Page 2

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

  Glen Hansard

  Travel, Long, Sometimes

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• I was born with a nervous breakdown.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Nervous, Born, Breakdown

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• There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

  Diane Wakoski

  Drinking, Drug, Too Much

  Diane Wakoski (1988). “Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987”, p.162, David R. Godine Publisher

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• There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous breakdowns and it would paralyze the state. That was the logic of aerial bombing. In fact, it doesn't happen at all, but the logic behind aerial bombing has never stopped, even though it never demoralizes, terrorizes, or paralyzes a population.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Class, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think I realize why celebrities go crazy, do something stupid or have a nervous breakdown. Fortunately I have great people around me, but I see how that can happen.

  Carrie Underwood

  Crazy, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.

  Mark Linkous

  Kings, People, Want

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• I've never stolen anything. Well, that's not entirely true. I once accidentally took a gift card from a store in a mall. I was carrying it around to show my mom because I thought it was funny, and I forgot to show it to her and left the store carrying it. I had a complete nervous breakdown, like, 20 minutes later and went back to the store in tears. So that's where I stand in terms of my ability to steal something.

  Zoe Kazan

  Mom, Tears, Cards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sleep, Men, People

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

  Alan Bleasdale

  Religious, Fighting, Years

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• I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

  Mel Brooks

  Blood, Sugar, Imbalance

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• When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting you with a lot of money to bring something home, to get great performances, to not have a nervous breakdown in the process.

  John Krokidas

  Eye, Home, Attachment

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

  Stephen King

  Mean, People, Creative

  Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.

  Duff Goldman

  Balance, Cards, Credit

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• Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Two, Tea, Tin

  Caitlin Moran (2016). “Moranifesto”, p.343, Random House

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• A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.

  Mariama Bâ

  Waiting, Littles, Bitterness

  Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.41, Heinemann

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• If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

  John Green

  World, Rats, Awful

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.6, A&C Black

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• If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

  Isaac Asimov

  Growing Up, Vacation, Cells

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.

  John Green

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed — or put itch powder in pressure suit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Men, Phones

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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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, Breakdown

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• I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mean, Thinking, Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

  Terrence McNally

  Writing, Play, Nervous

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• Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

  Judith Thurman

  Wine, Sobriety, Alcohol

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• Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.

  Cherie Currie

  Fun, Sleep, Addiction

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• I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Nervous, Breakdown

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