Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

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.

One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.

My personality is extremely unbalanced.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

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

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.

When I'm up, I'm over-exuberant; when I'm down, I just wander round on my own. I have no middle space.

People tend to think I'm funny and fluffy, but I can switch on a sixpence from extreme happiness to utter despair. I'm aware that doesn't make it easy for people sometimes.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

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

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.

Once you start losing reality, when you start losing reality with yourself, sometimes people just get dizzy.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.