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Mania is a wonderful feeling. -- Jeff Bridges
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. -- Gustave Flaubert
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. -- Alice Weaver Flaherty
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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. -- Felix Dennis
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. -- Wilfred Owen
The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up. -- Patty Duke
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. -- Carrie Fisher
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. -- Eric Alterman
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. -- Honore de Balzac
Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression. -- Chris Gethard
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. -- Benjamin Rush
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! -- Peter Andre
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. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
We choose mania over boredom every time. -- James Gleick
Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what. -- Samuel Beckett
There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak. -- Dave Pelzer
I have a fear of heights that borders on mania. -- Sylvester Stallone
the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress -- Robert Musil
Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation. -- Enzo Ferrari
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. -- Ray Bradbury
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. -- Juan Gabriel
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. -- Karl Abraham
At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums. -- Psy
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. -- Thomas Merton
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. -- Andy Behrman
A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me. -- Sia Furler
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. -- James Buchan
In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play. -- Darell Hammond
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. -- Hunter S. Thompson
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. -- Gary Sheffield
Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home. -- Shawn Amos
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines. -- Terence McKenna
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. -- Louis Aragon
There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion. -- Robert Southey
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...logic can be happily tossed out the window. -- Stephen King
With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly. -- David LaChapelle
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded. -- Gustave Flaubert
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years. -- A. Scott Berg
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity. -- Anatole France
Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria. -- Homer
I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania. -- Heitor Villa-Lobos
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. -- Leo Tolstoy
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease ..... -- Monica Dickens
I'm heavily medicated yet happily manic, I've been stuck on hypo mania for years. -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. -- Lord Byron
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. -- Christopher Morley
Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars. -- Iris Apfel
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. -- Oscar Wilde
I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong. -- Kathy Reichs
I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively. -- Caroline Polachek
Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind. -- Leon Golub
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ... -- Edith Sitwell
The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood. -- Max Landis
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. -- Henry James
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera. -- Joseph Brodsky
I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression. -- Carrie Fisher
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. -- Anton Chekhov
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. -- Aretaeus of Cappadocia
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. -- Martin Gardner
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." -- David Brooks
A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul. -- Anais Nin

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