Mania Quotes
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"Lawsuit mania"... a continual craving to go to law against others, while considering themselves the injured party.
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More Mania Quotes
Your mania for sentences has dried up your heart.
— To her son. Quoted in D J Enright A Mania for Sentences (1983), p.101.
"Lawsuit mania"... a continual craving to go to law against others, while considering themselves the injured party.
cesare lombroso— Pt. III, ch. 3
... the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress
robert musil— “The Religious Spirit, Modernism, and Metaphysics” (1913), B. Pike and D. Luft, trans., Precision and Soul (1978), p. 23
Megalomania’s only mania if you’re wrong
aaron weiss— Cardiff Giant.
Already, a conscious courage is coming to life. Here are some of the painters: Picasso , Braque , Delaunay , Le Fauconnier. . . they are highly enlightened, and do not believe in the stability of any system, even if it were to call itself classical art. . . Their reason is poised between the pursuit of the fleeting and a mania for the eternal.
— Jean Metzinger Note sur la Peinture (1910)
I suffer from cacoethes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, and from vanity . . . and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics. ... I am pachydermatous. ... I am a veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano on behalf of Democratic principles.
henry fountain ashurst— "The Silver-Tongued Sunbeam". Time (August 7, 1939)
He was carried away by that mania of the storyteller, who never knows which stories are more beautiful—the ones that really happened and the evocation of which recalls a whole flow of hours past, of petty emotions, boredom, happiness, insecurity, vanity, and self-disgust, or those which are invented, and in which he cuts out a main pattern, and everything seems easy, then begins to vary it as he realizes more and more that he is describing again things that had happened or been understood in lived reality.
Italo Calvino— The Baron in the Trees (1957), Chapter 16
— English translation: Archibald Colquhoun (1959)
The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.
martin gardner— Notes of a Fringe-Watcher, "The Tragedies of False Memories" Skeptical Inquirer (Fall 1994)
