Top 339 Breakdown Quotes & Sayings

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

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.

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

I can't properly explain it, but I don't mind admitting I suffered a breakdown.

As wealthy as you are, nothing, nothing, nothing guarantees you that through a breakdown of relationship, your kids won't end up on the streets. It's nothing to do with wealth: sometimes it can be down to other things, like the breakdown of relationships.

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO!

Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

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

That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time. I felt rejection from the white community. Couldn't understand why the pigmentation of my skin kept me from doing. Everybody always told me "You're going to be something." And of course, I began to raise questions about why it is that white folks treat us the way they do. The breakdown was very vivid. I just all of a sudden felt like I had been overcome by a train.

In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.

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.

If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

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

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

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

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

The wider public is clueless about the social breakdown in high-crime areas and its effect on street life.

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.

Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries... These inequities can't exist. So if you are talking about systemic breakdown, I think you have to look in terms of social breakdown.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

Family breakdown is blighting the lives of far too many children.

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

I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

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

You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?

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

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

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

Neither Neil Armstrong nor Michael Collins had a mental breakdown after returning from the moon.

The breakdown of the American family's having a disastrous impact on our economy.

I would like to see the breakdown of the binary way of looking at gender and sexuality.

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.

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

Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.

We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

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.

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

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

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'

I learned that most people buy based on emotion, not on a rational breakdown of the product or service.

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

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

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

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

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

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

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

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

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