If you give a bipolar man a mic, I don't know what you…

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with…

— Jon Ronson

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp

It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

— Voltaire

Flippin up my phone, touch screen motorola. They figured I was bipolar the way I sipped that syrup and soda.

— Riff Raff

“Creativity is closely associated with bipolar disorder. This condition is unique . Many famous historical figures and artists have had this. Yet they have…

— Preeti Shenoy

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

— Heinrich Heine

I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar disorder and…

— Eric Millegan

I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get heightened. I…

— Caroline Quentin

When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But…

— Sherman Alexie

“I thought I would inaugurate a Bipolar Pride Day. You know, with floats and parades and stuff! On the floats we would get the…

— Carrie Fisher

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I…

— Kevin Gates

“Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as a hallucination.”

— Melody Moezzi

“In our family "whim-wham" is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depressive, manic, or schizoaffective. Back…

— David Lovelace