Top 130 Mania Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

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

I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life.

Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

I think everybody had this weird mix of pubescent rage and sadness, and just pure mania and joy. It's a really weird time.

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

One of the only things I've regretted was saying yes to a TV special, 'Motown Mania,' and I said I'll sing you a Diana Ross song. It was just naff.

When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.

Mania is a wonderful feeling.

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.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways". He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window". Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.

In the '70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

We choose mania over boredom every time.

I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

My job, live television, broadcasting, there's mania involved in there, too, but it's the good stuff.

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries.

I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're performing, you're heightened, and it's an extreme.

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.

Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.

Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.

But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

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 is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

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

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

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

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.