--- title: "4 Bipolar Quotes By Marya Hornbacher" description: "4 Bipolar quotes by Marya Hornbacher. Plus more from Marya Hornbacher and more Bipolar sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/marya-hornbacher-2109_bipolar_i-have-a-type-of-bipolar-that-swings-up_793140.png" --- > [I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/i-have-a-type-of-bipolar-that-swings-up-and-down-all-day-long-there/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/marya-hornbacher-2109_bipolar_i-have-a-type-of-bipolar-that-swings-up_793140.png) > [When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/when-you-are-mad-mad-like-this-you-don-t-know-it-reality-is-what-you/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d11/marya-hornbacher-2109_bipolar_when-you-are-mad-mad-like-this-you-don-t_1316130.png) > [Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/soon-madness-has-worn-you-down-it-s-easier-to-do-what-it-says-than/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3e/marya-hornbacher-2109_absurd_soon-madness-has-worn-you-down-it-s-easi_1452171.png) > [There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/there-s-childhood-and-early-onset-bipolar-but-it-transitions-in-your/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ac/marya-hornbacher-2109_adulthood_there-s-childhood-and-early-onset-bipola_2464554.png) ## Other authors on Bipolar - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-kay-redfield-jamison-55816.jpg) Kay Redfield Jamison 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bipolar/kay-redfield-jamison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stanley-victor-paskavich-86694.jpg) Stanley Victor Paskavich 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bipolar/stanley-victor-paskavich/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-carrie-fisher-21391.jpg) Carrie Fisher 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bipolar/carrie-fisher/) - [David Lovelace 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bipolar/david-lovelace/) - [Andy Behrman 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bipolar/andy-behrman/) - [Alexis Hall 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bipolar/alexis-hall/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-fry-87000.jpg) Stephen Fry 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bipolar/stephen-fry/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jon-ronson-52784.jpg) Jon Ronson 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bipolar/jon-ronson/) ## More by Marya Hornbacher > [“Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/something-had-been-confirmed-i-was-worth-giving-a-shit-about-i-was/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/because-i-m-not-in-fact-depressed-prozac-makes-me-manic-and-numb-one/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [“perhaps our purpose is, for the time being, to be human, to live on this earth and in this human community, to receive something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/perhaps-our-purpose-is-for-the-time-being-to-be-human-to-live-on-this/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/i-have-never-been-normal-about-my-body-it-has-always-seemed-to-me-a/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/the-joy-is-an-absurd-yellow-tulip-popping-up-in-my-life-contradicting/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your culture. Very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/at-a-certain-point-an-eating-disorder-ceases-to-be-about-any-one/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/you-can-t-teach-an-ear-you-can-t-teach-talent-but-you-can-teach/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/it-s-really-interesting-to-me-how-all-of-us-can-experience-the-exact/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [“Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It humbles us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/being-here-living-now-recognizing-our-smallness-is-a-spiritual/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/we-think-of-bulimia-and-anorexia-as-either-a-bizarre-psychosis-or-as/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/the-anoretic-operates-under-the-astounding-illusion-that-she-can/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/if-i-had-been-a-different-sort-of-person-maybe-less-impressionable/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [“Every morning I watched the sun rise and read a highly religious little meditation book and tried having a conversation with God. I waited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/every-morning-i-watched-the-sun-rise-and-read-a-highly-religious/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/my-bones-are-brittle-my-heart-weak-and-erratic-my-esophagus-and/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) > [One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/one-really-ought-to-be-afraid-of-self-torture-but-it-tempted-me-it/) [Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bipolar/marya-hornbacher/#itemlist", "name": "4 Bipolar Quotes By Marya Hornbacher", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. 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