Nervous Breakdown Quotes

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

  Earl Wilson

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

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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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• 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, Breakdown

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

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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, Breakdown

  The Observer Interview, 1990.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

  Keith Ablow

  Real, Guy, Finding Yourself

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• If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Funny, Christian, Religious

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Girl, New York

  Andy Warhol (1990). “POPism: The Warhol '60s”, Harvest Books

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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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• Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.

  Dave Winfield

  Eight, Two, People

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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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• Dear Isabelle, Alec is about to have a nervous breakdown. If you do not immediately desist planing my wedding to your brother, I will come back to Manhattan and blow up the Institute. I will turn Church into a man-eating beast who will rampage through the streets of Manhattan, stepping on mundanes. And I will make you fat. Love, Magnus

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Blow, Men

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• I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns,  where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.

  Grace Kelly

  People, Suffering, Towns

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• One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique..., the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble.

  S. J. Perelman

  Summer, Discovery, August

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• I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.

  Kate Bush

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "'I'm Not Some Weirdo Recluse'". Interview with Tom Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2005.

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

  Jane Fonda

  Divorce, Nervous, Breakdown

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• I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences dont like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

  Leslie Moonves

  Character, Dark, People

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• If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

  Frank Bruno

  Running, Thinking, People

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• The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

  John Holmes

  Success, Nervous, Trouble

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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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• One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Work, Holiday, Men

  'The Conquest of Happiness' (1930) ch. 5

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

  Glen Hansard

  Travel, Long, Sometimes

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