I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease. — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
“Happiness is fine, in its season, but happiness out of season is a sure harbinger of doom.” — Terri Cheney 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'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 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
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 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
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more… — Catherine the Great 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
Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All… — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What the Sex Pistols made sounded like quality, because they had a big label and top engineers and producers. But punk rock… — David Vanian 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
“Mania has been described as having a mystical quality, an example of which is described by the writer Theodore Roethke. One day… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Mania was a mental state every bit as dangerous as depression. At first, however, it felt like a rush of euphoria. You… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
