#manic

I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it's poison. There has always existed a sort of psychic butcher who works the scales of transcendence, who weighs out the bloody cost of true art. ↗

— David Lovelace

#bipolar #hypomania #manic-depression #mental-illness #art

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#madness #manic-depression #mental-illness #reality #life

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

#mania #manic #mental-illness #psychology #present

I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#make #manicure #much #pretty #time

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

— Dom DeLuise

#get #have fun #i #little #manic

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

#around #because #colorful #funny #i

These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#clashes #create #day #enable #fate

I'm manic about my schedule. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#i #manic #schedule

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.

#cost #could #everything #friends #grow

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

— Patty Duke

#depression #evolution #manic #miracle #recovery