Welcome to Manic Quotes, a curated collection of insightful, humorous, and sometimes offbeat quotes that delve into the human experience with a touch of madness. From renowned thinkers to everyday individuals, the quotes showcased here capture moments of intense passion, profound introspection, and unbridled enthusiasm. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, a good laugh, or simply a glimpse into the kaleidoscope of human emotions, you’ll find it within these pages.
Life is a rollercoaster of emotions, and sometimes, it’s the moments of mania that stand out the most. Within the chaos of our minds, there often lies wisdom, wit, and a unique perspective waiting to be uncovered. Manic Quotes celebrates the unpredictable nature of human thought, offering a window into the exhilarating highs and tumultuous lows that define the human experience. So buckle up and prepare to embark on a journey through the wild and wonderful world of manic quotes. Let these words ignite your imagination, spark your creativity, and remind you that sometimes, it’s okay to embrace the madness.
Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah. Robin Williams
Excalibur’ was a quest for my father. I remember it was manic on the film set. And we had these massive castle sets. I think my dad was under tremendous pressure making the movie because there was so much going on. I remember it was a hard one to make – a lot of stress and strain. Charley Boorman
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. Patty Duke
Miles Davis is my go-to for music. There’s something so relaxing and ambient about it, and it can be a little manic in a good way. Antoni Porowski
Getting help for my issues was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, because when I get dangerously sad or manic, those feelings seek to perpetuate themselves. Chris Gethard
There’s childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you’re manic just disappears. Marya Hornbacher
No, I’m not very productive at all. I’m probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I’m someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I’ll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days. Jonathan Ames
Manic depression in general is something that runs in my family, and it’s something that I battle with. Laura Jane Grace
Sometimes you don’t want to abandon a project to go to another move and come back, so maybe because I have a manic obsession I stick to my idea, and I’d rather wait than do something that is not my main passion. Gaspar Noe
My creative process is a bit manic at times, to be honest. I wake up Monday and Thursday stressed because I don’t have a video. I usually – with the exception of maybe a handful of videos – wake up, write the video, shoot the video, edit the video, release the video all in the same day. Lilly Singh
In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today. Andy Behrman
I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times. Jess Phillips
The manic end of is a lot of fun. Carrie Fisher
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
My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can’t walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication. Andy Behrman
My mother was quite poorly. She suffered from bipolar disorder, which at that time was called manic depression. She spent a lot of time in psychiatric hospitals, and my father was away a lot with the RAF and then with his job in civil aviation, so I was raised in part by my sisters and my godmother, Sylvia. Caroline Quentin
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
Alright, so I’m a manic depressive. What do you want from me? Claire Forlani
Without medical records that he hasn’t released, we can’t know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother’s manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes in the former House Speaker certain symptoms – bouts of grandiosity, megalomania, irritability, racing thoughts, spending sprees – that go beyond the ordinary politician’s normal narcissism. Jacob Weisberg
I guess I get a little impatient and frustrated when people ask what ‘Manic Depression’ is about. Laura Jane Grace
I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I’ve chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes. Scott Weiland
Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it’s difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends. Andy Behrman
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
Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It’s a product of stress and in my case over-work. Adam Ant
Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can’t understand what they are saying. It’s a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive. Brian Wilson
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
Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen – but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life. Alexandra Petri
I’m not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess. Gavin Rossdale
I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it’s something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things – in my case, it was fraud. Andy Behrman
I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like. Carrie Fisher
I wish I could understand why so many people have a nearly manic desire to excuse, defend, explain or condone evil. Mike Gallagher
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from. Siri Hustvedt
I get really manic on set, and then to just get myself to a place where I’m alone in my apartment again, it’s like this recalibrating thing that happens. Antoni Porowski
The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls. Carrie Fisher
Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it’s the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don’t like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression. Andy Behrman
I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my family, came completely out of the blue after 59 years on this earth with no issues that we knew about, at least – sort of a normal run-of-the-mill guy who did his job and came home and had a family. Chris Wood
With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter. Sylvester Stallone
I’m kind of a manic exerciser. I’ll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won’t do it for six months. Jane Lynch
Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated – food, sharp edges, poor wiring. Nick Harkaway
I have social anxiety. It’s easier up on stage because there’s security in being there. When I’m off stage I’m trying not to be a manic freak. I’m quite shy. Sia
I think, taking too long to work on a record, you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it’s just this manic phase where I’m by myself and or on tour, and I write, and I write. John Darnielle
My thing is, I’ve yet to meet a well person. The spectrum is unbelievably wide, the triggers for depression and manic depression. Richard Ashcroft
I had a husband who, I’m convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn’t treat me as if I had a brain – I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off. Britt Ekland
I wrote ‘Jungle’ in my bedroom when I was having a manic time with a particular girl. Everyone thinks it’s this really upbeat song, but it’s not; it was just a really manic time, so I wrote a song about it. Tash Sultana
I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn’t know what was the matter with me. It was as if I’d died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be. Daniel Johnston
I don’t find I’m manic at all. I’m very chill. Kirsten Dunst
In late 2011, I watched a documentary by Stephen Fry called ‘The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive.’ He shared his story of bipolar disorder and depression, and it sounded exactly like me. I just cried. Tom Fletcher
Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things. Kathryn Lasky
I’m manic about my schedule. Elizabeth Hurley
I can’t be manic without it feeling false to me. Wyatt Cenac
I knew I was a manic depressive when I was 13 or 14, and I loved it. I always told people what I had, and I was always cresting on a manic wave. I used it, willingly and happily, and it was an extraordinary experience. When I got hit with the depressive side – Boom! – yes, it was horrible and unendurable, but that’s part of the story. Richard Dreyfuss
Sometimes I get a little manic and you can’t stop me. I’m all over the place. I have fun. Dom DeLuise
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.
My sets are not peaceful. It’s a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don’t sleep because I am writing. It’s manic. Michaela Coel
My pregnancy was great, but the last three weeks were manic because my blood pressure was going up and up. Gurinder Chadha
My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination. Andy Behrman
Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon – flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts. Andy Behrman
A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short – a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating – and I’d get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery. Ellen Forney
I use Manic Panic to dye my hair. Sometimes I do it myself. Justine Skye
I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds. Robert Sapolsky
Manic depressive is a disease. Debbie Reynolds
I was sober for, like, a year and a half, and I was 25, and I actually did have a manic episode, and I was diagnosed as bipolar. David Harbour
Women’s emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from ‘pleasantness,’ and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak. Petra Collins
I was diagnosed with ADD – see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons – and manic depression. So I was prescribed Ritalin for the ADD, and for the manic imbalances I was prescribed mostly benzodiazepines, which I loved, and antidepressants. Pete Wentz
At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet. Patty Duke
I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird. David A. Stewart
I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I’ve always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way. Erik Hassle
I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don’t really know who you are yet. Sally Hawkins
Loser lit antiheroes aren’t well intentioned or earnest; they don’t care whether you like them or not. They’re self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism. Kate Christensen
We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else’s Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude. Justine Musk
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
I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II. Ayelet Waldman
I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to… really not. I’m not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side. Selma Blair
I very classically would go into manic phases, which were as dangerous, if not more so, than the depressed phases, and I think I’d come up with the best ideas I ever had, and then the next day, I’d look at them and be like, ‘This is nonsense,’ because it was born out of a manic episode. What a waste of time. Chris Gethard
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. Karl Abraham
