“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of… — PSY Copy Share Image
Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia)… — Aretaeus of Cappadocia Copy Share Image
I think everybody had this weird mix of pubescent rage and sadness, and just pure mania and joy. It's a really weird… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
“Menuret repeats an observation of Forestier's that clearly shows how an excessive loss of a humor, by drying out the vessels and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and… — Nouriel Roubini 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
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable,… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And,… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong. — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive.… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“The end of the book also means the death of the book and after that comes the mania and depression. One or… — Abigail George Copy Share Image
I used to think like a presenter in real life: ok, we've got five minutes, this has to be a great five… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind. — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
