Quotes About Mania

madness that didn't involve mania or depression or psychosis. He called it 'manie sans delire' – insanity without delusions.

Everyone needed an obsession.

I used to be obsessed with 'Boss.'

I'm obsessed with broadcasting.

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

We must get into the habit of paying strict attention to precisely what the fascist has to say and not to dismiss it as nonsense or hogwash. Now we have a better understanding of the emotional content of this theory, which sounds like a persecution mania when it is considered together with the theory of the poisoning of the nation.

A moi. L'histoire d'une de mes folies.

deadly logic is one of the special characteristics of acute mania.

Do I understand you to assert that women are not subject to homicidal mania?

I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession." Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob

In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late. It wastes time and creates rigidity in schedules. Everyone knows I hate long meetings.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Before I was on medication, the mania was so bad that I couldn't concentrate, so although I'd feel very creative, I could never really finish a piece of work because my mind was moving so fast.

In a state of exuberance, judgment is put on hold-but is not turned off completely. In hypomania judgment is napping, but still wakes up periodically to check things out. In mania, judgment is out like a light.

My manias, at least in their early and mild forms, were absolutely intoxicating states that gave rise to great personal pleasure, an incomparable flow of thoughts, and a ceaseless energy that allowed the translation of new ideas into papers and projects. Medications not only cut into these fast-flowing times, they also brought with them seemingly intolerable side effects.

Decreased sleep is both a symptom of mania and a cause, but I didn't know that at the time, and it probably would not have made any difference to me if I had.

John Cade's article about the use of lithium in acute mania first appeared in 1949, in an obscure Australian medical journal

It goes on and on, and finally there are only others' recollections of your behavior—your bizarre, frenetic, aimless behaviors—for mania has at least some grace in partially obliterating memories.