Breakdown Quotes
240 quotes by 195 authors
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Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.
— Colum McCann
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with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
— John Kennedy Toole
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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…
— Andy Warhol
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Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a…
— Jodi Picoult
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If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.
— John Green
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Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence?…
— Jodi Picoult
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Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.
— J. R. Moehringer
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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
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Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be…
— Mercedes Lackey
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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…
— Isaac Asimov
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Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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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…
— Cassandra Clare
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Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see…
— John Green
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Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something…
— Daniel Keyes
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Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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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…
— Harry Gordon Selfridge
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If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle…
— Marco Rubio
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I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with…
— Caroline Leavitt
Who Wrote These Breakdown Quotes
195 authors contributed a total of 240 Breakdown Quotes, led by these top contributors: