I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My thoughts often range between manic to marvelous depends on the day... — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression. — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Depression is 80 per cent of my condition, and 10 per cent is mania, and 10 per cent is what we call… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars. — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
“People who think a lot are more prone to mania than people who do not think a lot. That intelligent, creative, and… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh,… — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I wanted to get better. Mania wasn't fun anymore. It wasn't creative or visionary. It was mean parody at best, a… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
There's no doubt in my mind that we'll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Mania has been described as having a mystical quality, an example of which is described by the writer Theodore Roethke. One day… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Mania was a mental state every bit as dangerous as depression. At first, however, it felt like a rush of euphoria. You… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Abhed, my father had called heredity-"indivisible." There is an old trope in popular culture of the "crazy genius," a mind split between… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
My job, live television, broadcasting, there's mania involved in there, too, but it's the good stuff. — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The solution to mania is so simple yet so hard to come by. Just sleep.” — Zack McDermott Copy Share Image
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image