Sean Combs Quotes

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

... too emotionally strung out.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

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

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.

Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.

The business has taken a toll on me.

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.