I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Depression is 80 per cent of my condition, and 10 per cent is mania, and 10 per cent is what we call… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“People who think a lot are more prone to mania than people who do not think a lot. That intelligent, creative, and… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars. — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word… — Peter Andre Copy Share Image
Before I was on medication, the mania was so bad that I couldn't concentrate, so although I'd feel very creative, I could… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I wanted to get better. Mania wasn't fun anymore. It wasn't creative or visionary. It was mean parody at best, a… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
“I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
There's no doubt in my mind that we'll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it.… — Jenifer Lewis 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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 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
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. — Karl Abraham 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
![“[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In place of words, I simply spoke with my skin.” quote by Terri Cheney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aea/terri-cheney-27205_communication_manic-sex-isn-t-really-intercourse-it-s_1599815.jpg)
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