Top 197 Manic Quotes & Sayings

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

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

Manic depressive is a disease.

A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

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.

The glass is always half empty. All good comedians are manic-depressive.

I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.

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.

It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.

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.

I guess I get a little impatient and frustrated when people ask what 'Manic Depression' is about.

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

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.

A little manic was what their house ran on.

I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

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.

Hey everybody, this is Rob Halford from Fight wishing you all a crazy heavy metal Christmas and an insane, wild manic New Year!

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.

My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

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

The manic end of is a lot of fun.

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

I can't be manic without it feeling false to me.

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.

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

I wish I could understand why so many people have a nearly manic desire to excuse, defend, explain or condone evil.

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

I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.

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.

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

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

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

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

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.

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.

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.

It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."

All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

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.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.

Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk

For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?

I use Manic Panic to dye my hair. Sometimes I do it myself.

I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.

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.

I'm manic about my schedule.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?

Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy.