Breakdown Quotes

• Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Break Through, Way, Kind

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• I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

  Natasha Hamilton

  Wedding, Children, Careers

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

  R. D. Laing

  Insane World, Break Through, Insanity

  'The Politics of Experience' (1967) ch. 6

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• With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

  Paul Feig

  Suits, Looks, Nervous

  "Paul Feig: Underrated Man of the Moment". Interview With Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 11, 2011.

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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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• Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Years, Long

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from May 14, 2013

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• It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Nervous, Unthinkable

  The Observer Interview, 1990.

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• I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

  Jane Fonda

  Divorce, Nervous, Devastated

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• Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

  Marian Keyes

  Nervous, Annoying, Middle

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• The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

  Kerry Washington

  Children, Taken, Men

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 18, 2012.

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• When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open
  up.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Feel Good, May, Telling The Truth

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• The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

  Norbert Wiener

  Goal, Process, Type

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.163, Da Capo Press

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• with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Taste, Chaos, Medieval

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.41, LSU Press

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• To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Inspirational, World, Ill

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• Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

  Terrell Owens

  Inspirational, Focus On Me, Breakthrough

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• No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.

  Tony Blair

  Media, Blame

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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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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• Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.

  Colum McCann

  Fabulous

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.109, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

  Jodi Picoult

  Angel, House, Atoms

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1073, Simon and Schuster

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• Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Can Do

  J. R. Moehringer (2005). “The Tender Bar: A Memoir”

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• What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough.... IF you understand God's grace

  Carl Lentz

  Often Is, Grace, Breakthrough

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• Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing and dangerous aspect of the state of society at this present time. Once the family idea, the family unit, the family life is broken up - once that goes, soon you will have no other allegiance.

  Martyn

  Home, Ideas, Broken

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• So many things were going great in my life and then all of the sudden my personal life just went down at crazy speeds. I had a negative breakdown and it changed my life forever, but I'm glad that it did, because if I had never gone into the treatment ... I don't know if, one, I'd even be sitting here today. Two, if I'd be alive today.

  Demi Lovato

  Crazy, Two, Forever

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• War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

  Hans von Seeckt

  War, Policy, Continuation

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• Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Transformation, Nervous

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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