Henri Matisse Quotes

I'm emotionally unpredictable and all over the place.

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

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

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.

My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'

In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

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

I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

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

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

I'll be fine, and suddenly I'll feel the depression coming on. It can start with the smallest thing.

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

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'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?

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions with crazy. Frankly, I think women who don't have major emotional disorders are really very dull.