Bipolar Quote by Ben Lerner Download Open image “I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.” — Ben Lerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bipolar Compulsive liar Liars Real Violent
I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I… — Peter DeLuise Copy Share Image
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive. — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in… — Donna Rice Copy Share Image
I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class. — Christine Lavin Copy Share Image
The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of… — Sunny Jain Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“What you need to do is harness the self-love you are hypostasizing as offspring, as the next generation of you, and let it branch… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation,” — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence?… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar disorder and… — Eric Millegan Copy Share Image
I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get heightened. I… — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
“Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as a hallucination.” — Melody Moezzi Copy Share Image
“In our family "whim-wham" is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depressive, manic, or schizoaffective. Back… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will go to… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
