Robin Williams Quotes

Being bipolar is a huge exaggeration of your emotions. You can be pretty high and also terribly low, so I've been through it all.

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.

No one had ever educated me on mental health. I really didn't understand why I would be feeling high on life, and everything was brilliant, and then suddenly I would be crashing into a deep hole.

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

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.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

Be prepared for mood swings.

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.

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

Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.

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

Depression is 80 per cent of my condition, and 10 per cent is mania, and 10 per cent is what we call normal. I say that must be when I am buying groceries. Or vacuuming.

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

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

I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.

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

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

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.