Manic Quotes

• Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun

  Dom DeLuise

  Fun, Littles, Sometimes

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• I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

  Frank Sinatra

  Sadness, Emotional, Elation

  "Read Playboy … for the Interviews". Interview with Joe Hyams, www.slate.com. February 1963.

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• You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Thinking, Knowing, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.

  Tim Burton

  Depression, Dark, Scary

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

  Patty Duke

  Funny Things, Outrageous, Jokes

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.133, Bantam

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• The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Children, Wife, Three

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• Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Depression, Soul, Touching

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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  My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

  Patty Duke

  Depression, Recovery, Swings

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.289, Bantam

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• The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Swings, People

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• Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

  Tim Sandlin

  Luck, Battle, Way

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• When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.

  Sherman Alexie

  Two, Effort, Bed

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

  Charley Pride

  Depression, Taken, Past

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• Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

  Nick Flynn

  Madness, Poet

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2?

  Ned Beatty

  Depression, Bipolar, Problem

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• I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic.

  Elle Macpherson

  Morning, Feet, Mind

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• I don't find I'm manic at all. I'm very chill.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Chill

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• Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Remember, Depressive

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• Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

  Gordon Parker

  Bipolar, May, Modern

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• I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.

  Andy Behrman

  Mean, Cycling, Years

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• I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Depressing, Fun, People

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• I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Memories, People, Want

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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 been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In sort, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Inspirational, Self, Bipolar

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

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• I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Thinking, Awareness

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Depression, Voice, Bipolar

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• We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

  Terri Windling

  Passion, Unique, Differences

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