Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.

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

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Be prepared for mood swings.

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

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.

One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

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

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

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'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

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.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

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.

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

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.'

I was an emotional basket case.