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“Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover emptiness and boredom. There was only one way I could avoid a state of despair and a breakdown. To be silent. And to reach behind the silence for clarity or at least try to collect the resources that might still be available to me.”

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Author:Ingmar Bergman

“I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.”

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Author:Kate Bush

“Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.”

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Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.”

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Book:Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason

Source: Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason

“Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.”

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Book:Moranifesto

Source: Moranifesto

“We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.”

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Author:Jerry Falwell

“I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.”

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Author:Elijah

“If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.”

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Author:Frank Bruno

“Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.”

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Author:Timothy Keller

“With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.”

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Author:Paul Feig

“Any breakdown is a breakthrough.”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.”

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Author:John Holmes

“The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.”

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Author:Barbra Streisand

“I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.”

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Author:Kate Bush

“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 or her work important.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.”

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Author:Glen Hansard

“I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.”

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Author:Duff Goldman

“My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.”

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Author:Jane Fonda

“When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“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.”

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Author:Marian Keyes

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