Mania Quotes

79 quotes by 73 authors

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part… — Honore de Balzac
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. — Ray Bradbury
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's… — Louis Aragon
The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York,… — Patty Duke
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity. — Anatole France
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which… — Charles Dickens
Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about… — Carrie Fisher
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized… — D. H. Lawrence
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you… — Robert Anton Wilson
Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria. — Homer
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If… — Monica Dickens
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently… — Yvon Chouinard
Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a… — Aretaeus of Cappadocia
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
When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled;… — Kay Redfield Jamison
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting,… — Wilfred Owen
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't think… — Rachel Maddow
Fundamentals might be good for the first third or first 50 or 60 percent of a move, but the last third of a great bull… — Paul Tudor Jones
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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