Breaking Point Quotes

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed.

It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

The hour must come when one of us will crack. And it will not be Germany.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

Sometimes in life you reach your breaking point, when you just can't deal with something anymore.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

I believe I am strong mentally. My breaking points might be bigger than most players. I think it's because of the way I grew up with my two older brothers. They pushed my limits quite often - once every day, I think! I think that played a big role in my breaking point being bigger than most players. Not all players.

'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough."

Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always broken. Rock is very strong and meditation is very delicate, but this is the mystery of life - the continuity of the delicate can break the strongest and the hardest.

I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.