Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out.… — Tom Smothers Copy Share Image
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck. — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown. — John Holmes Copy Share Image
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“Look" I narrowed my eyes at Mr. Gorgeous. "I'm kind of in the middle of a nervous breakdown and after that I… — Jennifer L. Hart Copy Share Image
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown,… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
If you ever feel like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, just follow these simple rules: First, calm down; second,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“She was a beauty queen!'' ''Holy shit.'' Harrison dissolved into a fit of laughter. ''No way is Redding pulling that one off.… — Jana Deleon Copy Share Image
My nervous breakdown last season, when I was bemoaning the fact that I'll never have time to read all the great books… — Jon Cryer Copy Share Image
“Hey,” Finn said, glancing over his shoulder. He had the end of a paintbrush clenched between his teeth. “You’re just in time.”… — Kate Brian Copy Share Image
Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
“Lincoln failed in business. He failed as a farmer. He lost running for state legislature. He had a nervous breakdown. He was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Before New York, the cracks were already there, but now they began to split open and gape, and the difference between how… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, Henry O. Teltscher had written a letter… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“You can't rest in the shade of a human, not even a roly-poly one; and isn't it refreshing that trees can undergo… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as… — John Hewson Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot taught us you can write about your nervous breakdown, but call it 'The Wasteland' and make it big and… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
“I’m about to have a nervous breakdown / My head really hurts / If I don’t find a way outta here /… — Paul Brannigan Copy Share Image
“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as… — Carl Elliott Copy Share Image
I think I realize why celebrities go crazy, do something stupid or have a nervous breakdown. Fortunately I have great people around… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Peter Dinklage doesn't care. He's so cool so you can laugh at it. Most actors, if you laugh they'd just have a… — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Copy Share Image
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“You know what she said? She says nobody gets a nervous breakdown just from the war and all. She says you probably… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“Come on, there's no one there. You want coffee?" Tess asked. "Yeah, sure, why not? I'm only on the brink of a… — Frankie Rose Copy Share Image
