Bipolar Quotes
135 Bipolar quotes by 83 unique authors
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Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of…
— Thomas Szasz
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I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information…
— Ayelet Waldman
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Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar…
— Ayelet Waldman
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The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of…
— James D. Watson
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I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them.…
— Eric Millegan
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
— Heinrich Heine
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I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
— Voltaire
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Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. Does that make sense?' It does. It also makes…
— Simone Elkeles
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
— Ray Bradbury
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Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than…
— Carrie Fisher
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Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.
— Emilie Autumn
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When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's…
— Marya Hornbacher
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As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.
— John Green
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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
— David Foster Wallace
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Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.
— Rachel Caine
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Bipolar disorder is a scary disease, but it is manageable. And I feel blessed that I was able to get the right attention and the…
— Eric Millegan
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In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis…
— Andy Behrman
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Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the…
— Martin Jacques
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There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Who Wrote These Bipolar Quotes
83 authors contributed a total of 135 Bipolar Quotes, led by these top contributors: