Manic Love Quotes

#1. Few things are strong enough to survive that deadly clash of mania and depression. Certainly not love. Love is far too fragile: it is a picture window, just begging to be shattered.

Terri Cheney

#2. I felt just the way Billie Holiday sounded, like I'd cried all I could and it wasn't enough.

Janet Fitch

#3. (Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver.)

Maureen Johnson

#4. Miss Lilly." Mr. Kan stood up and solemnly shook her hand. "When there is such a large gap of years between two friends, we Chinese call it wang nien chih chiao, a friendship that forgets the years. It's destiny that brings us together. I hope you will always think of me and Teddy as your friends.

Ken Liu

#5. What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.

Karen Russell

#6. 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.

#7. Trust me, never mock a romance book," said Mal with all the zest of a manic street preacher. "You have no idea the amount of good they can do for you between the sheets and on the streets. If you love you girl? Buy her books.

Kylie Scott

#8. We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.

Leigh Hunt

#9. I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way.

Erik Hassle

#10. Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.

Melodie Campbell

#11. If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

Kenny Smith

#12. When I'm doing a movie, that's when I relax. As stressful as it can be, as much pressure as it should be, making movies is still the place where I feel the most at ease and I truly enjoy it. That's why I make so many.

Salma Hayek

#13. Hail to the chief in triumph advances.

Walter Scott

#14. I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

Hugo Pratt