Maniac Quote by Bram Stoker

“My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating)…

— Bram Stoker

“Maniacal obsession can be a destructive or a transformative psychic force. What is unacceptable is a life of blandness, not to dare penetrate into…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The attendant thinks it is some form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look for squalls, for a strong…

— Bram Stoker

“It’s the hysterical individual who allows his life to be polarized by simple extreme antitheses like strength—weakness, potency—impotence, health—sickness.”

— Saul Bellow

“People who think a lot are more prone to mania than people who do not think a lot. That intelligent, creative, and thoughtful people…

— Eric Maisel

“My manias, at least in their early and mild forms, were absolutely intoxicating states that gave rise to great personal pleasure, an incomparable flow…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by any person…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“You can be a homicidal madman and hilarious at the same time, you know,”

— Michael Buckley

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

— Denis Diderot

“It is, I believe, one of the few dangerous forms of eccentricity, a highly contagious mania, to be precise, of the rampant social variety!…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.”

— Ann Coulter

“He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some deranged maniac…

— Etienne de L'Amour