Quotes About Mania

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

I feel like geek is about obsession. I feel like I geek out on certain things and that just means it's a mad devotion or obsession to something.

Awakened' is very much about obsession.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

You know about psychosis, Doctor. You should recognize the symptoms. Grandiose delusions. Religious mania. Paranoid violence. Sounds like society to me.

Hay un cierto placer en la locura, que solo el loco conoce.

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.

Conquest is the symptom of a craze.

Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college.

Typical of their mania for the trivial, their legalistic fascination with documents, proclamations, ads.

Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.

All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius.

[Optimism] is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

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 you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

The fist clenched round my heart loosens a little, and I gasp brightness; but it tightens again. When have I ever not loved the pain of love? But this has moved past love to mania. This has the strong clench of the madman, this is gripping the ledge of unreason, before plunging howling into the abyss. Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.

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.

A moi, L'historie d'une de mes folies.

There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know -John Dryden

The crash in 1929, however, did have one therapeutic effect: it, somewhat exceptionally, lingered in the financial memory. For the next quarter of a century securities markets were generally orderly and dull. Although this mood lasted longer than usual, financial history was not at an end. The commitment to Schumpeter's mania was soon to be reasserted.

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

La vida no vale nada si no tienes una obsesión.