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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do… — Jake Roberts Copy Share Image
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637,… — James Buchan 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that… — Anais Nin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That’s how the best ideas… — Shannon M Mullen 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
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
