I was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder at 19…

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