Bipolar Quotes

• Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

  Ray Bradbury

  Insanity, Crazy People, Insane

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

  Mason Cooley

  Depression, Courage, Bed

  "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Depression, Creativity

  "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

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• Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

  David Foster Wallace

  Secret, Different, Way

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• Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Unique, Suffering

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

  Carrie Fisher

  Depression, Teacher, Challenges

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• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  Adam Ant

  Finals, Needs, Attention

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  I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

  George Best

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.

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• There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Suffering, Needs, Helping

  "Catherine Zeta-Jones: 'There Is No Need to Suffer Silently'". People Magazine Interview, people.com. April 20, 2011.

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• Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

  Frank Bruno

  Powerful, Fighting, Trying

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• Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I'm proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.

  Demi Lovato

  Track, Support, Needs

  "Demi Lovato Joins Tour To Raise Awareness About Mental Illness" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. August 18, 2014.

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• I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.

  Emilie Autumn

  Crazy, Starks, Sane

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• As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Mind, Dying

  "Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Issues, Rooftops, Likes

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• Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you’re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Laughing, Promise

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• We of the craft are all crazy.

  Lord Byron

  Crazy, Crafts

  " New study claims to find genetic link between creativity and mental illness" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2015.

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• Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

  Carrie Fisher

  Diagnosis, Accepting

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• 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

  Inspirational, Self, Normal

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

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• I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, People, Different

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• It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

  Stephen Fry

  Men, Thinking, Virginia

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• 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

  Depression, Problem, Type

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• I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

  Michael Landon

  Giving Up, Fighting, Rooftops

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• Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

  Voltaire

  Insanity, Insane, Earth

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• Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mean, Thinking, Way

  "Ayelet Waldman: On Feeling Like A 'Bad Mother'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 4, 2010.

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• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

  Voltaire

  Depression, Thinking, Madness

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