Quotes About Breakdowns

#1. Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching blindly toward major breakdowns in security, governance, and public welfare.

Wesley K. Wark

#2. Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

Marianne Williamson

#3. There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.

Michael Connelly

#4. I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

Moby

#5. What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.

Iyanla Vanzant

#6. 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

#7. All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics.

James Curcio

#8. Only adults had nervous breakdowns in those days, so the methods of survival for boys who refused to join the system were animal cunning, "internal immigration" as the Germans call it, or simply getting the hell out. I practised the first two, then opted for the third and took myself to Switzerland.

John Le Carre

#9. 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

#10. I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.

Leonard Ravenhill

#11. Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

Joan Halifax

#12. There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.

Brian Cox

#13. Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.

Colum McCann

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

Rajneesh

#15. Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.

Mara Wilson

#16. And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

Chris Bohjalian

#17. Whether the guys are nervous or just had mental breakdowns, it happens. The game is a game of mistakes. And how you deal with them and correct them and all the things like that is what makes this game great and makes hockey the sport it is.

Chris Pronger

#18. Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.

Pankaj Mishra

#19. On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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

Anjelica Huston

#21. This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles.

Julian Jaynes

#22. Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first the cover-up ...

Ken Kesey

#23. People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find explanations for what they are undergoing. the research, of course fails.

Philip K. Dick

#24. I think I just love films where men have complete breakdowns.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#25. Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns.

Werner Erhard

#26. Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers ...

Mark Twight

#27. I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things ... in fact, I was one of them!

Harry Connick Jr.

#28. The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, ... There has been nothing like it for the last 2,000 years, and probably longer.

Lawrence Stone

#29. It's the process of making-do,
of the life I've lived between
breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life
worth living.
I could not bear a life
with everything perfect.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#30. In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

Jennifer Damiano

#31. Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

Ian McEwan

#32. I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music ... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

Thom Yorke

#33. Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

R.D. Laing

#34. Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.

Paul Simon

#35. 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

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

Bertrand Russell