Mental Collapse Quotes

When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.

We're going off the rails on a crazy train.

I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

They rise in the morning, and they sleep in the dark. And even though nobody's looking, she's falling apart.

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.

I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place.

Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.

Once I lose focus that's when I'm going to go tumbling down the hill.

I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

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.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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.

She fell apart because that's what happens.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

If you live around dummies and fake blood for six months, it becomes a part of you. It's fake blood, but sometimes I still feel the real scent of blood, so it's more mentally collapsing, not only physical.