A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My job, live television, broadcasting, there's mania involved in there, too, but it's the good stuff. — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression. — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
“The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I’m a WMD—I’ve got so much energy I’m… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East,… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination.… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My sadness compels me to hide it so that people won't judge me. Seeking help would have blown my cover. Meanwhile, my… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Vincent van Gogh was sane when he painted that piece of art, because when you you feel the mania and depression, you… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn 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
“Abhed, my father had called heredity-"indivisible." There is an old trope in popular culture of the "crazy genius," a mind split between… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable,… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My thoughts often range between manic to marvelous depends on the day... — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress — Robert Musil 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
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation. — Enzo Ferrari 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
