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Quotes About Highs

...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.
~ Terri Cheney, Manic: A Memoir
But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.
~ Jack London
Life has highs, lows, loud and quiet moments, beautiful ones and ugly ones. Music is a reflection of life.
~ Bonobo
On Top Of The World Or In The Depths Of Despair.
~ Goethe
[Adolf Hitler] was an emotional man, he had tremendous highs and he could get low as well, I've seen it.
~ Gretl Braun
I wish I enjoyed the World Cup, if only for some fleeting sense of common unity with the rest of humankind. But I simply don't get it. A huge number of my fellow citizens tune in and witness a glorious contest of ecstatic highs and heartbreaking lows. I see twenty-two millionaires fucking up a lawn.
~ Charlie Brooker
You loathe yourself, and yet you're consumed by the grandiose ideas you have about your own importance. You're up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.
~ Cheryl Strayed
And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.
~ Harsha Bhogle
I've been at these meets before where the emotions are so up and down.
~ Emma McKeon
I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.
~ Chely Wright
If I could find a way to make a film that takes you into the mind of a fighter, where you have 36 minutes of combat with so many different emotions, so many highs and lows, so many obstacles to overcome, I'd do that.
~ Peter Berg
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.
~ Gerhard Richter
I've had the good fortune of having a long and varied career. Looking back, some might think things have been plain sailing but, as with anything, there have been both highs and lows.
~ Vera Lynn
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
~ Fiona Apple
Success can be harder to take than failure in a lot of ways. It brings with it a responsibility. You have to learn that all the highs don't last forever. For every high, there's a corresponding low. It's why young kids often go to pieces. When they get so popular they can't go out of their hotel rooms, that's when they turn to drugs. Success can be very dangerous, very heady.
~ Howard Keel
Stay groovy/To keep the axis turning so that love follows music as the night the day/You hypnotize people to where they go right back to their natural state,like in childhood when you get natural highs.And when they come down off,they see clearer,feel different things.It's all spiritual/The idea is to get your own self together/What you do is your religion ?Starting at Zero?
~ Jimi Hendrix
I feel as if I'm on an emotional roller coaster. One moment I'm feeling as low as I can get, and the next I'm soaring into the clouds. Just now, I'm in the cloud phase.
~ Debbie Macomber
Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it's bad, you've never been so miserable, but when it's good you've never been so high.
~ Dan Savage
All Euphoria is followed by Depression.
~ Unknown
Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.
~ Ellen Ochoa
Live every day of your life in full. Experience the highs and the lows, the positives and the negatives, and all the moods present between the various extremes. Don't focus on simply being happy. Focus on living a well-rounded, seasoned life. Focus on achieving completeness.
~ Unknown
Will struggled a lot with his manic highs and deep lows. During his good times he was the life of the party. During his dark times he would withdraw from social gatherings and stay at home.
~ Unknown