Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease. — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The end of the book also means the death of the book and after that comes the mania and depression. One or… — Abigail George Copy Share Image
This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive.… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Fundamentals might be good for the first third or first 50 or 60 percent of a move, but the last third of… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“My mind feels like a race car on the track, getting faster and faster every time I pause to think or blink… — Shannon M Mullen 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania,… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, for grander failures. I want the whole world to be out… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.” — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
