Quotes About Breakdown

His feelings were too much for speech, and suddenly he broke down.

It is a terrible thing to feel that you might break down, you might utter a confession that could not then be retrieved.

That sensation of things-falling-away. Once the ice begins to crack, it will happen swiftly.   She

You can be on easy terms with such a man, you can see that he likes you, then by mistake you say the wrong word or make the wrong assumption and something shuts down in his face. Like an iron grating over a pawnshop window on a rundown street in Atlantic City. That abrupt.

Amy Schumer: I did an interview with Jerry Seinfeld the other day. Judd Apatow: You did? Did you know him at all? Amy: We met a bunch of times at the Cellar, but I didn't know him well. He picked me up in a Ferrari, and then it broke down on [the] West Side Highway. It was a real piece of shit. It was smoking, it was real scary. Judd:

The Cat in the Hat exposes the in-betweenness of it all, the midcentury breakdown in meaning, out of which Tom Petty's generation emerged, a little starved for something to call their own. It's the rock and roll of children's literature.

Then he took one look around the room, dropped his briefcase with a thud, and burst into tears.

While not every drought or adverse climatic change resulted in the breakdown of public authority, many did.

She'd snapped, he thought. She'd definitely snapped.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

MID TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

It takes courage to break down the walls that keep you away from really living your life.

'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.

There are a number of things that can cause your fridge to break down or lose power: electrical shorts or surges, clogged ventilation, et cetera. So it's possible that even with your temperature dial adjusted to the correct position, your fridge might be far warmer than it should be.

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

The wife acting as the head, but not a wise head, and the husband acting as the helper, but not a wise helper—it was the breakdown of marriage that broke everything.

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Our silence was not the vacuum that comes from having said all there is to say. Whatever conversation we had fell naturally to pieces and crumbled in bitter silence.

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

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.

The light of morning decomposes everything.