The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
“The solution to mania is so simple yet so hard to come by. Just sleep.” — Zack McDermott Copy Share Image
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy 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
“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“I do not know where this mania for understanding oneself has come from, he said, but it clearly exerts a powerful hold… — Gabriel Josipovici 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
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
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. — Karl Abraham 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
A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen,… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I thought Everything Ecstatic was the happiest of them all - hence the "ecstatic" name. The whole concept behind that was total… — Kieran Hebden Copy Share Image
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere;… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having… — Enrique Iglesias Copy Share Image
“Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and,… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
The patient needs to believe that they can keep the fire while being medicated. The doctors must tell them, "I understand that… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of… — Monica Dickens 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
“Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society's notions of what women are all about: passive, sensitive, hopeless, helpless, stricken, dependent,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret… — Ray Brassier 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