Breakdown Quotes

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. (Lawrence Durrell)
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. View quote
Art Buchwald
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. View quote
Christopher Lasch
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. View quote
Hu Shih
Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. View quote
Ronald David Laing
I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life. View quote
Brian Wilson
With the breakdown of the Medieval system, the gods of Chaos, Lunacy, and Bad Taste gained ascendancy. View quote
John Kennedy Toole
This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient. (Nigel Farage)
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 work important. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
Isaac Asimov
By "Revolution", we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars. View quote
Bhagat Singh
Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling. View quote
Greta Thunberg
The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually. View quote
Julian Jaynes
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind. View quote
Julian Jaynes
Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind. View quote
Julian Jaynes
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. View quote
Julian Jaynes
The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed the breakdown of the mechanistic theory even within physics, the science where it was the most successful... Relativity took over in field physics, and the science of quantum theory in microphysics... In view of parallel developments in physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, and economics, many branches of the contemporary sciences became... ‘sciences of organized complexity' - that is, systems sciences. View quote
Ervin László
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)
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck. View quote
Pat Williams
I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown! View quote
Richard Neutra
If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do. View quote
Joyce Meyer
With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge. View quote
Paul Feig