Breakdown Quotes

Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds.

Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

Everything is still falling apart.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

I love A Day to Remember. They really had that style down of doing heavy songs mixed with pop songs when nobody was doing that style of music.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

Nothing in Chicago seems to be working the way it’s supposed to.

A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

When things fall apart you sometimes can see more. You might even be able to see how to put things back together.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

Oh baby," he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over the counter. Puts his head in his hands. His hair falls over his fingers. The bathroom door clicks shut. She stays there for a long time. He's pulling his hair out.

It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.