Bob Greene Quotes

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with affection. I’m really lucky to be able to be in some of these situations and it feels really nice to be able to take people along with me for the ride. Oh, and I’m a pain in the ass as well.

A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.

That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament.

Be prepared for mood swings.

Nobody ever dared with Frank, because he had such mood swings, and you never knew how he was going to react. But I could tell the minute I saw him that he was going to be in my corner.

People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.

I've always had a big personality. I was trickier as a kid. I behaved erratically instead of consistently. I would have tons of friends, and then I would have no friends. I'd be with the cool girls, then the uncool girls. I migrated from group to group because I was bored or people got bored with me. I was very intense.

It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.

My moods are like a roller coaster. It's hard for me to just feel one way all the time.

Sometimes I am moody or bubbly, and then at other times, I just want to disconnect. I am an extreme person.

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.

I don't go crazy but I have those spurts.

I'm so moody all the time; I know I couldn't be able to run a country, because I would be crying one day and yelling at people the next day, you know?

Everybody has felt a little sweet but psycho, and I'm sure everybody has been called sweet but psycho.

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.

As a person, I am very unpredictable because I am very moody.

I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split second and I feel like I've seen too much. And that's the way, I've been like that most of my life, so I could never say I was there yet in any stretch of the imagination.

Most people keep their brains between their legs.

When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.